hydrotalcite
noun
hydrotalcite is a noun meaning “A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral mineral containing aluminum, carbon, hydrogen, magnesium, and oxygen” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-D-R-O-T-A-L-C-I-T-E, and it appears about once in every 93 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hydrotalcite is hydrotalcites.
What does hydrotalcite mean?
noun
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A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral mineral containing aluminum, carbon, hydrogen, magnesium, and oxygen.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of hydrotalcite
- hydrotalcites plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hydrotalcite?
Hydrotalcite appears about once in every 93 million words in written English, the 309,272nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does hydrotalcite come from?
From hydro- + talc + -ite.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).