humic shale

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   shale that is rich in humic acids

   Broadershalehumate

Questions about humic shale

What does humic shale mean?

humic shale means "shale that is rich in humic acids".

Is humic shale a common word?

humic shale 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.