hatchettite

[ hach-i-tahyt ]

noun

1. a soft yellowish mineral wax, C 38 H 78 , darkening on exposure: found in bogs and coal beds.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hatchettite¹

1865–70; named after Charles Hatchett (c1765–1847), English chemist; -ite ¹

Example Sentences

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.

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