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ruina montium

ruina montium noun: a mining technique in Ancient Rome, similar in principle to Pascal's barrel, where miners would excavate narrow cavities in a mountain and fill them with water to cause pressures high enough to fragment the rock.

Noun

ruina montium (uncountable)

  1. (historical) A mining technique in Ancient Rome, similar in principle to Pascal's barrel, where miners would excavate narrow cavities in a mountain and fill them with water to cause pressures high enough to fragment the rock.

Origin of ruina montium

Borrowed from Latin ruīna montium (“collapse of mountains”).

Questions about ruina montium

What does ruina montium mean?
Ruina montium means a mining technique in Ancient Rome, similar in principle to Pascal's barrel, where miners would excavate narrow cavities in a mountain and fill them with water to cause pressures high enough to fragment the rock.
What part of speech is ruina montium?
Ruina montium is a noun.

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