chalcanthite

Questions about chalcanthite

What does chalcanthite mean?

chalcanthite means "hydrated blue crystalline form of copper sulfate".

How many syllables are in chalcanthite?

chalcanthite has 3 syllables and divides as chal-can-thite under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for chalcanthite?

Close synonyms include blue vitriol, blue copperas, blue stone. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chalcanthite a common word?

chalcanthite is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.