dysodile
English edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek [Term?] (“ill-smelling”).
Noun edit
dysodile (usually uncountable, plural dysodiles)
- (mineralogy) A soft, finely laminated, greenish or yellowish-grey impure earthy or coaly bitumen, which emits a highly foetid odour when burning.
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References edit
- Henry Watts (1882) A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences, volume 2