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单词 rock wood
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rock wood
(b) Used attributively in the descriptive names of varieties of asbestos with a particular texture, density, etc., indicated by the second element, as rock cork, †rock flesh, †rock leather, †rock paper, †rock wood, etc. Cf. mountain n. and adj. Compounds 2b(b). Now rare.See also rock silk n. 2, rockwool n. at Compounds 2a(a).
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xylite1850
xylotile1864
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wood-rock1889
amosite1918
1762 P. Murdoch tr. A. F. Büsching New Syst. Geogr. I. 43 Amianthus... To this species belong Rock-flax, Rock-leather, Rock-flesh, and Rock-cork.
1776 J. Seiferth tr. C. E. Gellert Metallurgic Chym. i. i. iii. 10 When the leaves are hard and thin, it has the name of mountain- (rock) paper.
1804 R. Jameson Syst. Mineral. I. 449 Rock Wood... Occurs massive, and in plates.
1816 P. Cleaveland Elem. Treat. Mineral. & Geol. 327 When in thick, spongy masses, it has been called rock or fossil flesh.
1816 P. Cleaveland Elem. Treat. Mineral. & Geol. 327 Sometimes it appears in plates or membranes; when these are hard, they have been called rock or fossil leather; when thin and flexible, rock or fossil paper.
1855 J. Scoffern in Orr's Circle Sci.: Elem. Chem. 174 Asbestos, rock cork, and other minerals.
1888 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 3 Oct. Besides this fine silken article which occupies the central parts of the vein there are outside..great bodies of what is called rock cork,..‘rock beaters’ and ‘rock wood’.
1920 Public Health Rep. (U.S. Public Health Service) 35 2017 Both of the cold-storage rooms were insulated with rock cork.
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