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单词 smectis
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smectisn.

Etymology: < Greek σμηκτίς, a kind of fuller's earth.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsmectis.
rare.
(See quots. and smectite n.)
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1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Smectis,..Fullers-Earth.
1783 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 73 227 It feels like hard soap, or rather like that kind of stone which the mineralogists call Smectis.
1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. xlvi. 330 How is a clay to be distinguished from the smectis or soap-rock?
1905 Oban Advertiser 19 Aug. 3 By different authors, the ‘lapis nephriticus’ has been considered as an agate, a jasper, a gypsum, and a smectis.
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