It's the Word of the Day podcast for January 4th.

Today's word is Titanic, spelled T-I-T-T-A-N-I-C. Titanic is an adjective. Something described as

Titanic is very great in size, force, or power.

Here's the word used. In a sentence from, the story of CO2 is the story of everything, how carbon

dioxide made our world by Peter Brannon. Absurdily, though, if you were standing on a Rodinian beach,

on the ancient supercontinent of Rodinia, you might not have even noticed the seas rising at all.

This is because, as the land bounced back from underneath the weight of the now vanished ice sheets

and the gravitational pull of these tit Titanic ice sheets on the oceans disappeared,

the seas might have appeared to some Rhodinian beachgoers to instead retreat from the coast

and even drop by over 300 feet, despite the unthinkable rise in sea level globally.

Before becoming the name of the most famous ship in history, the word

Titanic described that which resembled or was related to the Titans, the family of giant

gods and goddesses in Greek mythology, who were believed to have once ruled the earth. They were

subsequently overpowered and replaced by the younger

Olympian gods under the leadership of Zeus. The size and power of the Titans is memorialized

in the adjective Titanic and in the noun, titanium, a chemical element of exceptional strength

that is used especially in the production of steel.

With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.

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