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kieselguhr

  • /ˈkiːzəlɡʊə/ UK

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Borrowed from German Kieselguhr, older spelling of Kieselgur, from Kiesel (“pebble, gravel”) + Gur (“guhr”).

noun kieselguhrs

  1. countable, uncountable Diatomaceous earth, a kind of soft rock containing the remains of diatoms; it absorbs nitroglycerine and is used to manufacture dynamite. It was the only name anybody seemed to know him by, “Kieselguhr” being a kind of fine clay, used to soak up nitroglycerine and stabilize it into dynamite.

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"kieselguhr." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/kieselguhr. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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@misc{kieselguhr_2026,
  title = {kieselguhr},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/kieselguhr},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}