Bathochromic
adjective
(chem) denoting or relating to a shift to a longer wavelength in the absorption spectrum of a compound
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- Batholith
a large body of intrusive igneous rock believed to have crystallized at a considerable depth below the earth’s surface; pluton. Historical Examples Upon the southwestern border of the batholith the number of aplitic dikes greatly increases. The Andes of Southern Peru Isaiah Bowman noun a very large irregular-shaped mass of igneous rock, esp granite, formed […]
- Bathometer
a device for ascertaining the depth of water. Historical Examples But the most ingenious of all contrivances for finding the depth of the sea is Siemen’s bathometer, a very recent invention. Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 702 Various bathometer, bath-om′et-ėr, n. an instrument for ascertaining depth. Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary (part […]
- Bathonian
adjective of or relating to Bath (geology) of or denoting a stage of the Jurassic system in NW Europe noun a native or resident of Bath the Bathonian period or rock system
- Bathophilous
adjective (of an organism) living in very deep water
- Bathophobia
bathophobia bathophobia bath·o·pho·bi·a (bāth’ə-fō’bē-ə) n. An abnormal fear of depths.