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Webster 1913 Edition


Mineral

Min′er-al

,
Noun.
[F.
minéral
, LL.
minerale
, fr.
minera
mine. See
Mine
,
Verb.
I.
]
1.
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.
2.
A mine.
[Obs.]
Shak.
3.
Anything which is neither animal nor vegetable, as in the most general classification of things into three kingdoms (animal, vegetable, and mineral).

Min′er-al

,
Adj.
1.
Of or pertaining to minerals; consisting of a mineral or of minerals;
as, a
mineral
substance
.
2.
Impregnated with minerals;
as,
mineral
waters
.
Mineral acids
(Chem.)
,
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
(Chem.)
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
(Nat. Sci.)
,
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
(Chem.)
,
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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Mineral

MIN'ERAL

,
Noun.
[Low L. minera, a matrix or vein of metals, whence mineralia; all from mine.]
A body destitute of organization, and which naturally exists within the earth or at its surface.
Minerals were formerly divided into salts, earths, inflammables and ores; a division which serves for a general distribution, but a more scientific arrangement into classes, orders, genera, species, subspecies and varieties, has been adopted to meet the more precise views of modern mineralogists.

MIN'ERAL

,
Adj.
Pertaining to minerals; consisting of fossil substances; as the mineral kingdom.
1.
Impregnated with minerals or fossil matter; as mineral waters; a mineral spring.

Definition 2024


minéral

minéral

See also: mineral, Mineral, and minerał

French

Noun

minéral m (plural minéraux)

  1. mineral

Adjective

minéral m (feminine singular minérale, masculine plural minéraux, feminine plural minérales)

  1. mineral

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