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Whether he used a plumbiferous, or lead glaze; or a stanniferous, or tin glaze, we do not know.— The Story of Porcelain
It is not a syenite, but probably a granite of new formation, analogous to those to which the stanniferous granites— Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2
The granite of these countries, by its structure, its mixture of hornblende, and other geological features alike important, appears to me to belong to a more recent formation, perhaps posterior to the gneiss, and analogous to the stanniferous granites, the hyalomictes, and the pegmatites.— Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3
Among the relics that have been found in the ruins are some very fine specimens of pottery which are as symmetrical and well finished as if they had been turned on a potter's wheel, and covered with an opaque enamel of stanniferous glaze composed of lead and tin that originated with the Phoenicians, and is as old as history.— Arizona Sketches
One-half of the world's tin is produced in the Malay States; it is mined chiefly in Selangor and Malacca, and forms the mainstay of the country's prosperity, though, curiously enough, little or no stanniferous deposits have been found on the eastern side of the dividing range.— Adventures in Many Lands
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