Shale rock is a sedimentary rock made up of clay, compacted together by pressure.
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Shale
//ʃeɪl//
Synonyms for "shale" (3 found)
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63 translations across 30 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- шиста noun (sedimentary rock)
- обелвам verb (to take off the shell, husk, cod, pod)
Catalan
1 entries- esquist noun (sedimentary rock)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 頁岩 /页岩 noun (sedimentary rock)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 頁岩 /页岩 noun (sedimentary rock)
Czech
2 entries- jílovitá břidlice noun (sedimentary rock)
- lupek noun (sedimentary rock)
Esperanto
1 entries- skisto noun (sedimentary rock)
Finnish
4 entries- kuori noun (shell, husk, cod, pod)
- liuske noun (sedimentary rock)
- savikivi noun (sedimentary rock)
- kuoria verb (to take off the shell, husk, cod, pod)
French
4 entries- schiste noun (sedimentary rock)
- décoquiller verb (to take off the shell, husk, cod, pod)
- décortiquer verb (to take off the shell, husk, cod, pod)
- écaler verb (to take off the shell, husk, cod, pod)
Galician
4 entries- cadorna noun (shell, husk, cod, pod)
- casca noun (shell, husk, cod, pod)
- fraga noun (sedimentary rock)
- rachón noun (sedimentary rock)
Georgian
1 entries- თიხიანი ფიქალი noun (sedimentary rock)
German
4 entries- Bitumenschiefer noun (sedimentary rock)
- Kupferschiefer noun (sedimentary rock)
- Schiefergestein noun (sedimentary rock)
- Schieferton noun (sedimentary rock)
Hungarian
2 entries- agyagpala noun (sedimentary rock)
- pala noun (sedimentary rock)
Icelandic
2 entries- leirflögur noun (sedimentary rock)
- leirsteinn noun (sedimentary rock)
Ingrian
1 entries- savislantsa noun (sedimentary rock)
Italian
1 entries- scisto noun (sedimentary rock)
Japanese
2 entries- 泥板岩 noun (sedimentary rock)
- 頁岩 noun (sedimentary rock)
Korean
1 entries- 혈암 noun (sedimentary rock)
Macedonian
1 entries- шкри́лец noun (sedimentary rock)
Norman
1 entries- bliu-pièrre noun (sedimentary rock)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- leirskifer noun (sedimentary rock)
- skifer noun (sedimentary rock)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- leirskifer noun (sedimentary rock)
- skifer noun (sedimentary rock)
Persian
1 entries- شیست noun (sedimentary rock)
Polish
1 entries- łupek noun (sedimentary rock)
Portuguese
1 entries- folhelho noun (sedimentary rock)
Russian
1 entries- сла́нец noun (sedimentary rock)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- škriljac noun (sedimentary rock)
- škriljevac noun (sedimentary rock)
Spanish
4 entries- cáscara noun (shell, husk, cod, pod)
- esquisto noun (sedimentary rock)
- lutita noun (sedimentary rock)
- pizarra noun (sedimentary rock)
Swedish
2 entries- lerskiffer noun (sedimentary rock)
- skiffer noun (sedimentary rock)
Tagalog
1 entries- eskuwisto noun (sedimentary rock)
Turkish
2 entries- şeyl noun (sedimentary rock)
- şist noun (sedimentary rock)
Sample sentences
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Hydraulic fracturing makes use of high-pressure water to create cracks in hydrocarbon-bearing shale.
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United States shale gas production is one of the worst ongoing ecological disasters.
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Algeria has massive quantities of shale oil that could be extracted through fracking.
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