Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is versed in the science of minerals, or one who treats or discourses of the properties of mineral bodies.
- noun In conchology, a conchologist or carrier-shell; any member of the family Xenophoridæ (or Phoridæ). See cut under
carrier-shell .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One versed in mineralogy; one devoted to the study of minerals.
- noun (Zoöl.) A carrier shell (
Phorus ).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person expert in
mineralogy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a scientist trained in mineralogy
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Examples
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Not surprisingly, Metung attracted a number of distinguished early holiday-makers, some of whom settled there permanently, including the explorer and mineralogist Dr. Alfred Howitt; His Honour Judge John Burnett Box; and John King, the second son of Rear Admiral Philip Parker King.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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Also a mineralogist and scientific writer in periodicals.
Index of People 2009
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Köchel was a botanist and mineralogist as well as musical scholar, but Mozart was the genius.
Follow the Money James Grant 2011
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A pirate, a rural French bug collector, a Soviet mineralogist and a Holy Roman Emperor count among this volume's contributors.
Gift Guide: Best of Science Jennie Erin Smith 2011
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“We are in the midst of another tremendous era of reclassification — like the scientists of the 18th century,” says Robert Downs, a mineralogist who with his University of Arizona colleague Bonner Denton, a chemist, has spearheaded the development of Raman technology.
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“We are in the midst of another tremendous era of reclassification — like the scientists of the 18th century,” says Robert Downs, a mineralogist who with his University of Arizona colleague Bonner Denton, a chemist, has spearheaded the development of Raman technology.
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By 1927, an employee of Tiffany & Co. was complaining that "no gem ever caused the mineralogist or archaeologist quite the heartache that jade has," although the complaint was prompted more by commercial frustration than academic enquiry.
Nothing Gold Can Stay Hugh Thomson 2011
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“We are in the midst of another tremendous era of reclassification — like the scientists of the 18th century,” says Robert Downs, a mineralogist who with his University of Arizona colleague Bonner Denton, a chemist, has spearheaded the development of Raman technology.
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Frederick Mohs (1773-1839), a German mineralogist who devised a scale for determining the hardness of an unknown rock or mineral, which is often very useful in the identification process.
Mohs, Frederick 2009
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I am in love with the amount of research it took to reveal the real James Smithson, (1765-1829) the British chemist, mineralogist, and philanthropist who donated $500,000 in 1836 to help establish the Smithsonian Institution, "an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge."
mollusque commented on the word mineralogist
A carrier-shell (genus Xenophora) that attaches stones to its shell. (Listed in OED2.)
November 18, 2007