clarain

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noun

A form of coal having stratifications parallel to the bedding plane.

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Meanings

nounclarain (countable and uncountable, plural clarains)

plural clarains

  1. countableuncountableA form of coal having stratifications parallel to the bedding plane.

    Insufficient fusain was available, whilst it was thought that the behaviour of clarain would be intermediate between durain and vitrain.

    1954, Wilfrid Francis, “The Composition of Mature Coals”, in Coal: Its Formation and Composition, London: Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd., →OCLC, page 391

Origin

From Latin clārus + French -ain (“-ane”), after fusain. Coined by British birth control campaigner and paleontologist Marie Stopes in 1918.

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Chicago

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