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单词 keffekill
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keffekilln.

Forms: Also kiffekill, kiefekill.
Etymology: ‘Said to mean the earth of Keffe or Kaffe, the town of the Crimea from which it was shipped’ (Chester, Dict. Names Min.). Perhaps representing Persian kef-i-gil ‘foam of clay’; but the classical Persian name is kef-i-daryā ‘foam of the sea’ (J. T. Platts).
Mineralogy. Obsolete. rare.
= meerschaum n.
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sea-froth1801
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sepiolite1854
magnesium trisilicate1936
1758 Cronstedt Mineralogie 79 states, that the Keffekil Tartarorum was used by the Tartars as soap.]
1784 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. 59 Meershaum of the Germans, Keffekill.
1796 R. Kirwan Elem. Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 145 Keffekill or myrsen..is said to be when recently dug of a yellow colour, and as tenacious as cheese or wax.
1807 T. Thomson Syst. Chem. (ed. 3) II. 477 To the first of these classes belongs the ruby; to the second, steatites and kiffekille.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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