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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A light-colored porous rock composed of the shells of diatoms.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Geol.) a deposit of fine, usually white, siliceous material, composed mainly of the shells of the microscopic plants called diatoms; also called
infusorial earth ,kieselguhr , anddiatomite . It is used in polishing powder, and in the manufacture of dynamite.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A light
soil consisting ofsiliceous diatom remains and often used as afiltering material or microabrasive .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a light soil consisting of siliceous diatom remains and often used as a filtering material
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