English Explanatory Dictionary

Hilt's law

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. A geological law stating that the deeper coal is found, the higher its rank (carbon content). It holds true when the thermal gradient is entirely vertical.

Word forms

Hilt's law

Etymology

Observed by professor Carl Hilt (1873).

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