Well attestedNamed from the place
randannite
noun · first attested 1850s
French dynamite was soaked into this stuff, quarried from peat bogs in the Auvergne.
A variety of diatomaceous earth, an earthy form of opal.
Record
- Relationship
- Named from the place
- Confidence
- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 1850s
- Part of speech
- noun
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Randan
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randannite
Randannite is the French name for the infusorial silica dug from bogs around Randan in the Puy-de-Dôme, and the English form appears in print by 1850 in Dana. Late nineteenth century French dynamite was standardized at about 21 percent randannite as the absorbent holding the nitroglycerin. Diatomite from other sources filled the same role in Nobel's original formulation.
France
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