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plastiglomerate

plastiglomerate noun: a type of rock with plastic inclusions.

Noun

plastiglomerate (countable and uncountable, plural plastiglomerates)

  1. A type of rock with plastic inclusions
    • Plastiglomerates are a marker for Anthropocene rocks.
    • Santos and her team ran chemical tests to find out what kind of plastics are in the rocks called "plastiglomerates" because they are made of a mixture of sedimentary granules and other debris held together by plastic.[2023 March 16, Sergio Queiroz, “Brazilian researchers find 'terrifying' plastic rocks on remote island”, in Reuters

Forms of plastiglomerate

pluralplastiglomerates

Origin of plastiglomerate

Blend of plastic + conglomerate. Coined by Patricia Corcoran and Charles Moore, who discovered the mineral formation containing plastics (synthetic polymer material).

Questions about plastiglomerate

What does plastiglomerate mean?
Plastiglomerate means a type of rock with plastic inclusions.
What part of speech is plastiglomerate?
Plastiglomerate is a noun.
What is the plural of plastiglomerate?
The plural of plastiglomerate is plastiglomerates.

Words near plastiglomerate in the dictionary

  1. plastifiers
  2. plastifies
  3. plastify
  4. plastifying
  5. plastiglass
  6. plastiglomerate
  7. plastiglomerates
  8. plastilina
  9. plastin
  10. plastinate
  11. plastinated

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