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kandic

kandic adjective: being or relating to a soil horizon with an accumulation of iron and aluminium oxides and low-activity silicate clays.

Adjective

kandic (not comparable)

  1. (soil science) Being or relating to a soil horizon with an accumulation of iron and aluminium oxides and low-activity silicate clays.

Origin of kandic

Acronym formed from the initial letters of the minerals kaolinite, nacrite, dickite + -ic.

Questions about kandic

What does kandic mean?
Kandic means being or relating to a soil horizon with an accumulation of iron and aluminium oxides and low-activity silicate clays.
What part of speech is kandic?
Kandic is an adjective.

Words near kandic in the dictionary

  1. kandi kid
  2. kandi kids
  3. kandi raver
  4. Kandian
  5. Kandians
  6. kandic
  7. Kandice
  8. kandies
  9. Kanding
  10. Kandinskian
  11. Kandinsky

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