Mineral /(?)/
Min·er·al
Mineral
n.
- An inorganic species or substance occurring in nature, having a definite chemical composition and usually a distinct crystalline form. Rocks, except certain glassy igneous forms, are either simple minerals or aggregates of minerals.
- A mine. [Obs.]
- Anything which is neither animal nor vegetable, as in the most general classification of things into three kingdoms (animal, vegetable, and mineral).
Mineral
a.
- Of or pertaining to minerals; consisting of a mineral or of minerals; as, a mineral substance.
- Impregnated with minerals; as, mineral waters.
Phrases & Compounds
- Mineral acids
- inorganic acids, as sulphuric, nitric, phosphoric, hydrochloric, acids, etc., as distinguished from the organic acids.
- Mineral blue
- the name usually given to azurite, when reduced to an impalpable powder for coloring purposes.
- Mineral candle
- a candle made of paraffin.
- Mineral caoutchouc
- an elastic mineral pitch, a variety of bitumen, resembling caoutchouc in elasticity and softness. See Caoutchouc, and Elaterite.
- Mineral chameleon
- See Chameleon mineral, under Chameleon.
- Mineral charcoal
- See under Charcoal.
- Mineral cotton
- See Mineral wool (below).
- Mineral green
- a green carbonate of copper; malachite.
- Mineral kingdom
- that one of the three grand divisions of nature which embraces all inorganic objects, as distinguished from plants or animals.
- Mineral oil
- See Naphtha, and Petroleum.
- Mineral paint
- a pigment made chiefly of some natural mineral substance, as red or yellow iron ocher.
- Mineral patch
- See Bitumen, and Asphalt.
- Mineral right
- the right of taking minerals from land.
- Mineral salt
- a salt of a mineral acid.
- Mineral tallow
- a familiar name for hatchettite, from its fatty or spermaceti-like appearance.
- Mineral water
- See under Water.
- Mineral wax
- See Ozocerite.
- Mineral wool
- a fibrous wool-like material, made by blowing a powerful jet of air or steam through melted slag. It is a poor conductor of heat.