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vitrain

noun

Etymology

From Latin vitreus (“vitreous”) + -ain in fusain; compare French -ain (“-ane”). Coined by British birth control campaigner and paleontologist Marie Stopes in 1918.

  1. derived from vitreus — “vitreous”

Definitions

  1. A constituent of banded bituminous coal consisting of a horizontal glossy band of friable…

    A constituent of banded bituminous coal consisting of a horizontal glossy band of friable material.

    • The caking behaviour of vitrain and clarain could be improved after the coal has been picked out.
    • In order to measure relatively accurately the activation energy of coal, and to exclude the disturbance from coal samples, the hand-picked banded vitrains in bright coal are adopted as experimental samples (Table 1).
    • Thus, it may be concluded that a lower viscosity of plastic vitrain grains facilitates pores to grow and coalesce and grains to stick to one another to create intergrain pores.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA