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diaspore
[ dahy-uh-spawr, -spohr ]
noun
- a mineral, aluminum oxyhydroxide, AlO(OH), occurring in crystals, or more usually in lamellar or scaly masses: a principal constituent of bauxite and an important source of aluminum.
- Botany. a disseminule, especially one that undergoes dispersal.
diaspore
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noun
- a white, yellowish, or grey mineral consisting of hydrated aluminium oxide in orthorhombic crystalline form, found in bauxite and corundum. Formula: AlO(OH)
- any propagative part of a plant, esp one that is easily dispersed, such as a spore
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of diaspore1
Example Sentences
Similar in aesthetic to Diaspore, Bouquet was designed to examine the chaotic merger of China's natural and human-built environments.
In the gallery’s main exhibition space, Steinkamp presents Diaspore, a techno-riff on the displacement of humans and land, via two mural-sized films that feature an animated tangle of branches, berries, and other foliage.
Diaspore, dī′a-spÅr, n. a grayish, infusible hydrate of aluminium.
He has been called “diaspore,†an insulting term.
When heated before the blowpipe it decrepitates violently, breaking up into white pearly scales; it was because of this property that the mineral was named diaspore by R. J. Hauy in 1801, from διασπείÏειν, “to scatter.â€
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