Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- According to the principles of, or with reference to, mineralogy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb According to the principles of, or with reference to, mineralogy.
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- adverb With regard to
mineralogy .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Both slag and metal objects, sampled from distinct chronological contexts, will be characterized mineralogically and geochemically, to be able to relate differing properties to chronological (e.g. early Roman to early Byzantine) and functional (e.g. household instruments, architectural fittings, military objects and armor, etc.) categories.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Metallurgical Studies Report 1 2003
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We have sampled a large number of different clay materials from all over the territory that will be characterized petrologically, mineralogically, and chemically by Ph.D. students Bert Neyt and Dennis Braekmans to get insights into the nature of local pottery activities throughout centuries.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Isotope Archaeology Survey Report 1 2003
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These sample will be analyzed mineralogically (petrography, X-ray diffraction) and geochemically (Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry, X-Ray Fluorescence) to identify and characterize the ore deposits and the metal production waste.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Metallurgical Studies Report 2 2003
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The blocks are chemically, isotopically, and mineralogically similar to the host rhyolite.
Granophyre.html 1998
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With ores, as with merchandise, custom and sentiment play their part, -- with the result that two ores of identical grade mineralogically and chemically may have quite a different vogue and price, simply because of the fact that furnace men are used to one and not to the other and are not willing to experiment.
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The ore is mineralogically martite schist, and the enclosing rocks are grayish, greenish and pinkish siliceous schists, of probable eruptive origin.
North Carolina and its Resources. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896
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And the English could not ascertain from their cursory inspection or hydrographical examination that, mineralogically speaking, it was one of the richest countries of the New World.
Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century Jules Verne 1866
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But we cannot talk of these things now; and what is more, you must let me talk straight on, for a little while; and ask no questions till I've done: for we branch ( 'exfoliate,' I should say, mineralogically) always into something else, -- though that's my fault more than yours; but I must go straight on now.
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859
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The soil, mineralogically considered, does not seem to vary materially from that in the neighbourhood of
California Four Months among the Gold-Finders, being the Diary of an Expedition from San Francisco to the Gold Districts Henry Vizetelly 1857
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If, in the granitic series, where a very complex formation, we would distinguish mineralogically between the rocks of granite, gneiss, and mica-slate, it must be borne in mind that coarse-grained granite, not passing to gneiss, is very rare in this country.
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