Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
mineralogical .
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- adjective
mineralogical
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Examples
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Intermediateness in its mineralogic aspect of positivism -- or Iron that strove to break away from Sulphur and Oxygen, and be real, homogeneous
The Book of the Damned Charles Fort
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As to physical things, chemic, mineralogic, astronomic, it is not customary to say that they act to achieve Truth or Entity, but it is understood that all motions are toward Equilibrium: that there is no motion except toward Equilibrium, of course always away from some other approximation to Equilibrium.
The Book of the Damned Charles Fort
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After the elimination of unfavorable areas, there comes the hunt for positively favorable geologic conditions -- for a definite kind of sediment or igneous rock, for a definite structure, for the right kind of mineralogic and metamorphic conditions, or for the right combination of these and other geologic elements.
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Mineral deposits may be similar in their mineralogic and geologic characters and relations over a considerable area.
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They have certain peculiar mineralogic associations -- the ores containing large quantities of all the common copper oxide minerals, and a number of rare oxide minerals of copper, lead, silver, and cobalt, together with gypsum, sulphur, and much iron and manganese oxide.
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The etymology of the name of the largest mountain chain of the globe cannot be devoid of interest to the mineralogic geographer.
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The etymology of the name of the largest mountain chain of the globe cannot be devoid of interest to the mineralogic geographer.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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The team first examined the Main target and discussed the geologic and mineralogic significance of the Upper and Lower adits and underground workings that were developed for gold production in the 1920s along a number of the near-vertical gold-bearing vein structures.
Star Gold Corp. Explores Its Excalibur and Longstreet Projects in Nevada - Yahoo! Finance 2010
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In a study by Wray et al., data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveal new mineralogic signatures of widespread water during the first billion years of Martian history.
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"Together, the synthesis of these three data sets provides valuable morphologic and mineralogic information needed to interpret the geologic setting and origin of the light-toned deposits within the troughs of Noctis."
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