Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to magnesia or having its qualities; containing or resembling magnesia.
- Of or pertaining to Magnesia, an ancient city of Asia Minor, near Miletus, or to a town of the same name in ancient Lydia, or to a district so called in Thessaly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, characterized by, or containing, magnesia or magnesium.
- adjective (Min.) See
Dolomite .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Containing
magnesia - adjective mineralogy Describing
minerals containingmagnesium
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Examples
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Certainly it contains many shells of species now living in the neighbouring ocean; and the limestone ridge running parallel with and close to the coast, and which in the colony is falsely called magnesian limestone, contains a great proportion of modern shells.
The Bushman — Life in a New Country Edward Wilson Landor 1844
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A different type of limestone, magnesian limestone, was used extensively in the Roman military fortress.
The Anglian Tower, York Carla 2010
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This is a different type of limestone to the magnesian limestone used to construct the Roman walls, and the masonry technique is also different.
Archive 2010-09-01 Carla 2010
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This is a different type of limestone to the magnesian limestone used to construct the Roman walls, and the masonry technique is also different.
Kings of Lindsey Carla 2010
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A different type of limestone, magnesian limestone, was used extensively in the Roman military fortress.
Archive 2010-09-01 Carla 2010
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A different type of limestone, magnesian limestone, was used extensively in the Roman military fortress.
Kings of Lindsey Carla 2010
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This is a different type of limestone to the magnesian limestone used to construct the Roman walls, and the masonry technique is also different.
Kings of Lindsey Carla 2010
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This is a different type of limestone to the magnesian limestone used to construct the Roman walls, and the masonry technique is also different.
The Anglian Tower, York Carla 2010
-
A different type of limestone, magnesian limestone, was used extensively in the Roman military fortress.
Kings of Lindsey Carla 2010
-
This is a different type of limestone to the magnesian limestone used to construct the Roman walls, and the masonry technique is also different.
Kings of Lindsey Carla 2010
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