elaterite

[ ih-lat-uh-rahyt ]

noun

1. an elastic, rubbery, brownish natural asphalt.

elaterite

/ ɪˈlætəˌraɪt /

noun

1. a dark brown naturally occurring bitumen resembling rubber

Word History and Origins

Origin of elaterite¹

First recorded in 1820–30; elater + -ite ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of elaterite¹

C19: from elater + -ite ¹

Example Sentences

Mineral′ogist, one versed in mineralogy; Mineral′ogy, the science which treats of minerals: the art of describing and classifying minerals.—Mineral acids, a name applied to sulphuric, nitric, and hydrochloric acids; Mineral black, an impure carbon used as a pigment; Mineral caoutchouc, a variety of bitumen—also Elaterite; Mineral kingdom, that department of nature which comprises substances that are neither animal nor vegetable; Mineral oil, oil which is forced up or pumped from the earth, as petroleum, naphtha, &c.;

From Project Gutenberg

Elastic Bitumen, Elaterite, or Mineral Caoutchouc, an elastic mineral bitumen of a blackish-brown colour, and subtranslucent.

From Project Gutenberg

ELATERITE, also termed Elastic Bitumen and Mineral Caoutchouc, a mineral hydrocarbon, which occurs at Castleton in Derbyshire, in the lead mines of Odin and elsewhere.

From Project Gutenberg

In its widest sense it embraces the whole range of these substances, including natural gas, the more or less liquid descriptions of petroleum, and the solid forms of asphalt, albertite, gilsonite or uintahite, elaterite, ozokerite and hatchettite.

From Project Gutenberg

A peculiar variety of the last named, called “Blue John,” is found only near Castleton; at the same place occurs the remarkable elastic bitumen, “elaterite.”

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