sorbite

Etymology

From Sorby (“a surname”) + -ite, after Henry Clifton Sorby.

sorbite means pearlite. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 90 out of 100.

noun

Pearlite.“According to Boynton this constituent is sorbite in the case of steels containing more than ·8 per cent. carbon, for if troostite be β iron free from carbon it cannot exist in hyper-eutectoid steels.”
Sorbitol.“Sorbite is isomeric with mannite and dulcite, and forms with oxalic acid at 75° sorbite-formamide, with evolution of carbonic anhydride. It is a colourless odourless syrup.”