单词 |
cliftonite |
释义 |
cliftonite Min.|ˈklɪftənaɪt| [Named after Robert Bellamy Clifton (1836–1921), English physicist: see -ite1.] Carbon occurring as small cubic crystals in meteoric iron.
1887Fletcher in Min. Mag. VII. 130 As this kind of crystallised graphitic carbon is unknown among terrestrial minerals..it may conveniently receive a distinctive name, and I therefore suggest the term Cliftonite. 1910Encycl. Brit. VIII. 162/2 Graphitic carbon in cubic form (cliftonite). |

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