Definitions
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- adj. Containing magnesia
- adj. Describing minerals containing magnesium
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Pertaining to, characterized by, or containing, magnesia or magnesium.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to Magnesia, an ancient city of Asia Minor, near Miletus, or to a town of the same name in ancient Lydia, or to a district so called in Thessaly.
- Pertaining to magnesia or having its qualities; containing or resembling magnesia.
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Examples
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Certainly it contains many shells of species now living in the neighbouring ocean; and the limestone ridge running parallel with and close to the coast, and which in the colony is falsely called magnesian limestone, contains a great proportion of modern shells.
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This is a different type of limestone to the magnesian limestone used to construct the Roman walls, and the masonry technique is also different.
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A different type of limestone, magnesian limestone, was used extensively in the Roman military fortress.
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However, addition of high magnesian calcite and magnesium carbonate returned pH to values approaching or higher than initial values.
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Hydraulic limestones, sometimes referred to as argillaceous limestones have a high proportion of clay and silicia (15-20 %) and can be either high calcium or magnesian.
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Dolomitic and magnesian limestones, in addition to the CaCO3, contain a relatively large proportion of MgCO3.
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MgCO3 are referred to as "dolomite" or as dolomitic limestone, and those containing between 5 -20 % MgCO3, as magnesian limestone.
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The wet slaking method described below (handslaking) is a suitable simple means of slaking magnesian limestone quicklimes.
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Effect on calcination temperature and firing: Limestone including magnesian limestones may be highly or poorly crystalline, i.e. have a well defined crystal structure or not.
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Overburnt magnesian limestone or dolomite hydrates very slowly and is just about impossible to hydrate when impure.
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