Posts tagged with “chemistry”
- noun
- A subterranean organism resembling a botanical rhizome, known to produce valuable pearl-like stones.
- Origin
- Derived from aureus (golden) and lac (milk).
- Source
- Prospect
- noun
- A device able to freeze a person in a cylinder of liquid nitrogen to preserve the body in case of catastrophe.
- Origin
- Formed from vitri (glass) and ‘fax’ – fac simile (“make like”).
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- Fiasco
- noun
- The photographic process invented by Leonardo da Vinci.
- Origin
- Formed from chiaro (bright), scuro (dark), and gráphō (to draw).
- Source
- Bruno’s Shadow