英语词汇“torbanite”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

单词

torbanite

释义

torbanite Min.|ˈtɔːbənaɪt|
[f. Torbane Hill in Linlithgowshire, where found: see -ite¹ 2 b.]
A deep brown shale, allied to cannel coal; also called Torbane Hill mineral or Boghead coal; valuable for the production of petroleum and gas, and famous as the subject of a great lawsuit hinging upon the dispute whether or not it was legally ‘coal’.
1858Greg & Lettsom Man. Mineral. 16 Torbanite... Boghead mineral. Boghead coal.c1865Letheby in Circ. Sc. I. 139/2 Mr. James Young..has..been engaged in producing an oil..from a shale known as the Torbanehill mineral.1867W. W. Smyth Coal & Coal-mining 18 It is by no means easy..to draw a distinct line of demarcation between cannel and the black basses, bats, or crisp shales, which occur in the coal measures... And between all these and the torbanite, or ‘Boghead mineral’, there exists a relationship which makes the difference only one of degree.

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