selenitic

A sort of mortar called selenitic mortar, the invention of the late General Scott, has been made use of in many of the buildings of the School Board for London, and was first employed on a large scale in the erection of the Albert Hall.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887

Dr. Gruithuisen, of Munich, maintains that he has descried through his large achromatic telescope "great artificial works in the moon erected by the lunarians," which he considers to be "a system of fortifications thrown up by the selenitic engineers."

Moon Lore

My journal for the last year or two has been _selenitic_ in this sense.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863

I ought to add that the advocates of Scott's selenitic mortar claim that it not only sets quickly and hard, but that it is extremely tenacious, and consequently makes a much more robust wall than ordinary mortar.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887

It is claimed that a larger proportion of sand can be used with selenitic lime than with ordinary, thus counterbalancing the extra expense occasioned by royalty under the patent and special care in mixing.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887

This observation tended to discredit the selenitic theory, since an object, in order to acquire such speed in falling merely from the moon, must have been projected with an initial velocity not conceivably to be given by any lunar volcanic impulse.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences

Moreover, there was a growing conviction that there are no active volcanoes on the moon, and other considerations of the same tenor led to the complete abandonment of the selenitic theory.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences

And one speculator of the time took a step even more daring, urging that the aerolites were neither of telluric nor selenitic origin, nor yet children of the sun, as the old Greeks had, many of them, contended, but that they are visitants from the depths of cosmic space.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences

My journal for the last year or two, has been _selenitic_ in this sense.

Excursions

[4] Mr. _Margraaf_ has lately demonstrated, by a set of curious and accurate experiments, that this powder is of the nature, and possesses the properties, of the gypseous or selenitic substances.

Experiments upon magnesia alba, Quicklime, and some other Alcaline Substances