shale
A shell, scale or huskA shell, scale or husk; a cod or pod.
» Algeria has massive quantities of shale oil that could be extracted through fracking.
Значення
значень: 3(злічуване, незлічуване)A shell, scale or husk; a cod or pod.
(злічуване, незлічуване)A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.
Tonstein, Ölschiefer, Schieferton
сла́нецslánec
a sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of successive layers of clay
(злічуване, метонімічно, незлічуване)The shale oil and shale gas segment of the oil and gas industry.
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речень: 12Algeria has massive quantities of shale oil that could be extracted through fracking.
Fracking is a type of geo-engineering to get oil out of shale.
The geologist noted a tabular layer of anthracite running between two bands of shale.
Shale gas is more expensive than conventional gas.
Shale rock is a sedimentary rock made up of clay, compacted together by pressure.
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мов: 8За значеннями 1
За значеннями 1
Походження
From Middle English schale (“shell, husk; scale”), from Old English sċealu (“shell, husk,From Middle English schale (“shell, husk; scale”), from Old English sċealu (“shell, husk, pod”), from Proto-West Germanic *skalu, from Proto-Germanic *skalō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to split, cut”), from *(s)kel- (“to split, cleave”).
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множина: shalesСпільнокореневі
пов’язаних слів: 19Уроки до слова
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