SMECTITE

Definition: SMECTITE

SMECTITE

Noun

1. A hydrous silicate of alumina, of a greenish color, which, in certain states of humidity, appears transparent and almost gelatinous.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Etymology: Smectite \Smec"tite\, noun. [from German expression smectit, from the Greek expression kind of fuller's earth, from to wipe off.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definition
Chemistry	Originally a synonym for fuller's earth, the term has been used in Great Britain to describe the montmorillonite group of clay minerals; the term is also used to describe clays with high swelling properties. Source: European Union. (references)
Geological	Group of clays, those most susceptible to shrink-swell. (references)
Mining	A. Any clay mineral with swelling properties and high cation-exchange capacities; an expansive clay. b. A term originally applied to fuller's earth and later to montmorillonite; also to certain clay deposits that are apparently bentonite, and to a greenish variety of halloysite. c. The mineral group beidellite, hectorite, montmorillonite, nontronite,pimelite, saponite, sauconite, sobotkite, stevensite, and swinefordite. (references)
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Synonym: SMECTITE

Synonym by domain: montmorillonite (chemistry).

Crosswords: SMECTITE

Specialty definitions using "SMECTITE": corrensite ♦ gilgai ♦ karpinskyite ♦ magnesium bentonite, mixed-layer mica ♦ pits-and-mounds formation ♦ rectorit. (references)

"SMECTITE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SMECTITE" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	7	133,076

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Language		Translations for "SMECTITE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		smektit. (various references)

Pig Latin		ectitesmay

Portuguese		esmectite. (various references)

Russian		сукновальная глина. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "SMECTITE": smectites. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "SMECTITE" (pronounced 'Smec"tite'): Apotactite, Hittite, Martite, Partite, Pluripartite, stalactite. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-m-s-t-t"
	-1 letter: emetics.
	-2 letters: emetic.
	-3 letters: cesti, cetes, cites, emits, items, meets, mesic, metes, metis, mites, mitts, smite, stime, teems, times.
	-4 letters: cees, cete, cist, cite, emes, emic, emit, etic, ices, item, meet, mete, mice, mise, mist, mite, mitt, sect, seem, seme, semi, sett, sice, site, smit, stem, stet, teem, tees, test, tets, tics, ties, time.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-m-s-t-t"
	+1 letter: smectites.
	+2 letters: cementites, chemisette, committees, emittances, metaethics, meterstick.
	+3 letters: antiemetics, centimeters, chemisettes, domesticate, enticements, estheticism, excitements, hemstitched, hemstitcher, hemstitches, incitements, intumescent, meteoritics, metersticks, remittances, technetiums.
	+4 letters: actinometers, aestheticism, bewitchments, cementations, cementitious, chastisement, domesticated, domesticates, econometrist, estheticisms, hemstitchers, incompetents, mastectomies, meristematic, metacentrics, recruitments, subcommittee, tensiometric, theocentrism, thymectomies, vitrectomies.
	+5 letters: actinometries, actinomycetes, aestheticisms, ascertainment, chastisements, densitometric, deterministic, domesticities, econometrists, ethnocentrism, gastrectomies, hepatectomies, meteoriticist, microcassette, micropipettes, recommitments, reindictments, semisynthetic, sensitometric, spectrometric, subcommittees, theocentrisms, thermochemist, thymectomizes, tracheotomies.
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