JAB <
here@is.invalid> writes:
On 13 Jun 2025 16:43:24 -0300, Mike Spencer
<mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:
New word: Clathrosynclastic -- broken together in a basket
AI Overview
"Clathrosynclastic" is not a standard geological term. It seems to be
a combination of two geological terms: "clastic" and "syncline
Given that "clathrosynclastic" is likely a compound term, it could potentially describe a geological structure where:
Clastic sedimentary rocks are arranged in a syncline.
The formation or characteristic of a syncline involves clastic
materials"
That's what you get whe you rely on so-called AI. It's not a
geological term at all. It's a neologism applicable in numerous
metaphorical cases.
Clastic -- Etymology
borrowed from French clastique, from Greek klastos "broken in pieces"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clastic
Clathrate -- Etymology
Latin clathratus, furnished with a lattice, from clathri (plural)
lattice, from Greek kleithron bar, from kleiein to close
Clathrate hydrate Clathrate hydrates, or gas hydrates, clathrates,
or hydrates, are crystalline water-based solids physically
resembling ice, in which small non-polar molecules or polar
molecules with large hydrophobic moieties are trapped inside
"cages" of hydrogen bonded, frozen water molecules.
Syn -- together, as in synthesis, syndactyly
Greek for basket is kalathi but kalathisynclastic doesn't sound as
strong and the trapping of small molecules in cages or baskets of ice is
a good mnemonic.
Clathrosynclastic: broken together in a basket.
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Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada
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