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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD MACERAL

From Latin mācerāre to macerate.
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PRONUNCIATION OF MACERAL

maceral  [ˈmæsərəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MACERAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Maceral is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MACERAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Maceral

A maceral is a component, organic in origin, of coal or oil shale. The term 'maceral' in reference to coal is analogous to the use of the term 'mineral' in reference to igneous or metamorphic rocks. Examples of macerals are inertinite, vitrinite and liptinite.

Definition of maceral in the English dictionary

The definition of maceral in the dictionary is any of the organic units that constitute coal: equivalent to any of the mineral constituents of a rock.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MACERAL


agricultural
ˌæɡrɪˈkʌltʃərəl
architectural
ˌɑːkɪˈtektʃərəl
carceral
ˈkɑːsərəl
cheliceral
kɪˈlɪsərəl
cultural
ˈkʌltʃərəl
electoral
ɪˈlɛktərəl
federal
ˈfɛdərəl
funeral
ˈfjuːnərəl
general
ˈdʒɛnərəl
lateral
ˈlætərəl
liberal
ˈlɪbərəl
mineral
ˈmɪnərəl
rhopaloceral
ˌrəʊpəˈlɒsərəl
rural
ˈrʊərəl
spiral
ˈspaɪərəl
structural
ˈstrʌktʃərəl
successoral
səkˈsesərəl
temporal
ˈtɛmpərəl
tesseral
ˈtɛsərəl
visceral
ˈvɪsərəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MACERAL

maccoboy
MacDiarmid
Macdonald
Macdonnell Ranges
mace
macebearer
Maced.
macedoine
Macedon
Macedonia
Macedonian
macer
maceranduba
macerate
macerater
maceration
macerative
macerator

WORDS THAT END LIKE MACERAL

attorney general
bilateral
collateral
director general
director-general
Distrito Federal
ephemeral
feral
four-star general
in general
inspector general
literal
major general
multilateral
numeral
parenteral
peripheral
secretary-general
several
unilateral

Synonyms and antonyms of maceral in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «maceral» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MACERAL

Find out the translation of maceral to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of maceral from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «maceral» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

显微组分
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

maceral
570 millions of speakers

English

maceral
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मेसेरल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

maceral
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

maceral
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

macerais
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

maceral
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

macérale
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Makeral
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Mazeral
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

マセラル
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

maceral
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Maceral
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

maceral
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

maceral
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मकरसंक्रमण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

maseral
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

maceral
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

macerałów
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

maceral
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

maceral
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

maceral
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

maceral
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

maceral
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

maceral
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of maceral

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MACERAL»

The term «maceral» is normally little used and occupies the 147.862 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MACERAL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «maceral» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «maceral» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about maceral

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MACERAL»

Discover the use of maceral in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to maceral and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Applied Coal Petrology: The Role of Petrology in Coal ...
Maceral Analysis For geological research on coal basins and for an evaluation of coal seam quality it is important to know the quantitative composition of a coal in terms of the macerals (and minerals in some cases) or maceral groups. This is ...
Isabel Suárez-Ruiz, John C. Crelling, 2008
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Field Description of Coal: A Symposium
With regard to the connection between maceral composition and litho- type occurrence, and despite the high degree of overlap in maceral distribution among lithotypes, there is evidence that useful information may be gained by further ...
‎1978
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Coal and Coalbed Gas: Fueling the Future
The term microlithotype is based on maceral and/or maceralemineral association and per- centage as observed under ... 50 mm (0.05mm) in which each maceral or maceral group comprises more than 5% by area (Hunt, 1989; Hower, Esterle, ...
Romeo M. Flores, 2013
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Diagenesis, III
Huminite/vitrinite in coal According to coal petrographic classification, based on morphology, the huminite/vitrinite maceral group has three subgroups: telinite ( preserved plant cell structure), detrinite (detrital part of both arboreal and ...
G.V. Chilingarian, K.H. Wolf, 1992
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The Organic Carbon Cycle in the Arctic Ocean
Based on the comparison of hydrogen index values and maceral composition in immature sediments obtained within the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP), for example, Stein et al. (1986) showed that in samples with hydrogen index values  ...
Rüdiger Stein, Robie W. Macdonald, 2004
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Solid Fuels and Heavy Hydrocarbon Liquids: Thermal ...
Table 4.7 Properties of the three maceral concentrates used in the calculation of predicted total volatile yields in Figure 4.20. ... of six coals and three maceral concentrates were collected using the high-pressure wire-mesh reactor (1–30 bar).
Rafael Kandiyoti, Alan Herod, Keith Bartle, 2006
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Mining, Challenges of the 21st Century
Amoco's study AMOCO analysed several samples of coal from Damodar Valley coalfields for maturity, coal quality, maceral content and sorption. The coal samples, analysed and used in the study, were obtained from the year 1990 to 1994.
Ajoy K. Ghose, B. B. Dhar, 2000
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The Chemistry and Technology of Coal, Third Edition
By convention, maceral names always have an -inite suffix. Thus, macerals are generally divided into the vitrinite (or huminite in lower-rank coals), inertinite, and liptinite groups. Huminite/vitrinite macerals are derived from humic substances, ...
James G. Speight, 2012
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Sedimentation of Organic Particles
However, this never occurs, and in order to evaluate the relationship the sample maceral spectra has to the population maceral spectra, the sources of variation which affect organic matter sedimentation must be determined and understood.
Alfred Traverse, 2005
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New Trends in Coal Preparation Technologies and Equipment
The use of image systems to perform maceral analysis is discussed and several new methods are explored. A semi-automated technique is also described, which uses software functions to operate the microscope, the program also allows ...
Wieslaw Blaschke, 1995

7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MACERAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term maceral is used in the context of the following news items.
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West Hartford Police Lieutenant Earned More Than $540000 In Last …
Van Winkle replied, “Holy Maceral” [sic]. Van Winkle emailed town council members in March to inform them of Brancoforte's and other top ... «Hartford Courant, Jun 15»
2
ZEISS Mineralogic Reservoir Characterizes Petrographic Minerals …
Organic maceral types mapped within a core sample and arranged in size classes. Digitally mapped by ZEISS Mineralogic Reservoir. «Azom.com, Sep 14»
3
Stellar speller Ashwin Veeramani wins his second Cuyahoga bee …
Placing second was Nihal Manjila of Communion of Saints School in Cleveland Heights. He faltered on the word maceral (a fragment of plant ... «The Plain Dealer, Mar 14»
4
New Age Exploration testwork confirms quality metallurgical coal at …
... content of the coals, suggest that the coal could be a suitable “sweetener” for blending with coals with higher ash and inert maceral content. «Proactive Investors Australia, Jul 13»
5
Coal petrography crucial to evaluate SA's low-grade coal – SABS
The project started in August last year, with the results showing that the coal contained low reactive maceral (vitrinite and reactive semifusinite) ... «Creamer Media's Mining Weekly, Mar 13»
6
Geology hints at high prospectivity offshore Sydney Basin
... i.e., offshore, which implies that a greater percentage of oil-prone kerogen maceral contact could be expected within shale-prone sections. «Offshore Oil and Gas Magazine, Jan 12»
7
System for optical analysis of coal source rock
Vitrinite is a maceral and is comprised of various polymers, cellulose, and lignin. Measuring the amount of light reflected by vitrinite macerals is ... «R & D Magazine, Jan 11»

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