ruina montium

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A mining technique in Ancient Rome, similar in principle to Pascal's barrel, where miners would excavate narrow cavities in a mountain and fill them with water to cause pressures high enough to fragment the rock. historical,uncountable

词源

Borrowed from Latin ruīna montium (“collapse of mountains”).
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