dopplerite

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A brownish-black hydrocarbon occurring in elastic or jelly-like masses, derived from the maceration of peat.

Word forms

dopplerite dopplerites

Etymology

From Doppler + -ite, after physicist and mathematician Christian Doppler.

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