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Kettle bottom

Term · Industrial and trades · MLC-T-IND-003161

A smooth, rounded, cylindrical mass of rock in the roof of a coal mine that can drop out without warning and injure or kill miners. It is thought to be the cast of a fossil tree stump, whose original form has been preserved in the sediment.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-IND-003161
FieldIndustrial and trades
SubjectMining and extraction
TranslationsGerman: Kettle Bottom; Spanish: kettle bottom; French: fond de bouilloire
Record as JSON 
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  "id": "MLC-T-IND-003161",
  "term": "Kettle bottom",
  "field": "Industrial and trades",
  "definition": "A smooth, rounded, cylindrical mass of rock in the roof of a coal mine that can drop out without warning and injure or kill miners. It is thought to be the cast of a fossil tree stump, whose original form has been preserved in the sediment.",
  "subject": "Mining and extraction",
  "translations": {
    "de": "Kettle Bottom",
    "es": "kettle bottom",
    "fr": "fond de bouilloire"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/industrial/kettle-bottom/"
}

Record 3,451 of 7,291 in Industrial and trades terminology (MLC-0113). Request the full dataset.