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kieselguhr

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10 lettersPronunciation /ˈkiːzəlɡʊə/Part of speech nounSorted eeghiklrsuStarts with KEnds with R0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a light soil consisting of siliceous diatom remains and often used as a filtering material

Word origin

Borrowed from German Kieselguhr, older spelling of Kieselgur, from Kiesel (“pebble, gravel”) + Gur (“guhr”).

Used in a sentence

  • It was the only name anybody seemed to know him by, “Kieselguhr” being a kind of fine clay, used to soak up nitroglycerine and stabilize it into dynamite.

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