英语词汇“kimberlite”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

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kimberlite

释义

kimberlite Min.|ˈkɪmbəlaɪt|
[Named, 1886, from Kimberley in Cape Colony + -ite¹ 2 b.]
The eruptive rock, or ‘blue ground’, which is the matrix of the diamond at Kimberley and elsewhere in South Africa; it occurs in cylindrical ‘pipes’, often having a diameter of several hundred feet, and of unknown depth.
1887H. C. Lewis in Papers on the Diamond (1897) 50 There appears to be no named rock-type having at once the composition and structure of the Kimberley rock... It is now proposed to name the rock Kimberlite... Kimberlite is a rock sui generis, dissimilar to any other known species.1899Edin. Rev. Apr. 319 This ‘blue’ rock—named ‘Kimberlite’ by Professor Carvill Lewis—is really of a dull green tint, due to its impregnation with iron oxides.

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