Etymology

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Today it means: An industrial mineral made up of primarily of dicalcium silicate. Full definition →

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The story

Named by Alfred Elis Törnebohm in 1897 after examining Portland cement through a microscope.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.