pyroclastic

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A rock mostly composed of rock fragments of volcanic origin.
    — The basic volcanics are altered andesites, porphyritic diabases and andesites, and various pyroclastics.
形容词 adj.
  1. Mostly composed of rock fragments of volcanic origin or comminuted during an eruption. not-comparable
    — The word "ash" is not a very good one to include all the mechanical accompaniments of a subaerial or subaqueous eruption, since ash seems to be restricted to a fine powder, the residuum of combustion. A word is wanting to express all such accompaniments, no matter what their size or condition may be, when they are accumulated in such mass as to form beds of "rock." We might call them perhaps "pyroclastic materials," ...

词形变化

pyroclastics plural

词源

词源 1
From pyro- + clastic, from Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr, “fire”), and κλαστός (klastós, “broken”).
词源 2
From pyro- + clastic, from Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr, “fire”), and κλαστός (klastós, “broken”).
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