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keffekill
‖ keffekill Min. Obs. rare. Also kiffe-, kiefe-. [‘Said to mean the earth of Keffe or Kaffe, the town of the Crimea from which it was shipped’ (Chester, Dict. Names Min.). Perh. repr. Pers. kef-i-gil ‘foam of clay’; but the classical Pers. name is kef-i-daryā ‘foam of the sea’ (J. T. Platts).] = mee...
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meerschaum
meerschaum (ˈmɪəʃɔːm, -ʃəm) Forms: 8 ? myrsen, 8–9 meershaum, 9 meerchum, mereschaum, merschaum, 8– meerschaum. [a. G. meerschaum, lit. ‘sea-foam’, f. meer sea + schaum foam (a literal transl. of the Persian name kef-i-daryā), alluding to its frothy appearance.] 1. A popular synonym of sepiolite, a ...
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