Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A porous, lightweight, siliceous sedimentary rock composed of the shells of diatoms or radiolarians or of finely weathered chert, used as an abrasive and a polish.
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- noun geology A
sedimentary rock composed of the shells ofdiatoms etc
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This kind of tripoli has been lately dif - covered in Scotland.
The Economy of Nature Explained and Illustrated: On the Principles of Modern Philosophy. By G ... 1798
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Not only does the treaty of tripoli signed by president madison say that THIS IS NOT A CHRISTIAN NATION, it also states mutually that we are in no way an enemy of islam, and vice versa.
Think Progress » Townhall.com “Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel” for Michelle Malkin 2005
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Do you know that Syrian mukhabarat selected `Atallah to lead the pro-Syrian forces that attacked tripoli in the 1980s?
Sunday, April 30, 2006 As'ad 2006
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The polishing may afterwards be completed with a bit of serge or cloth, without tripoli.
Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets Daniel Young
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Take 2 ozs. of tripoli, reduced to fine powder; put it into an earthen pot or basin, with water to cover it; then take a piece of fine flannel, four times doubled, lay it over a piece of cork or rubber, and proceed to polish your varnish, always wetting it with the tripoli and water.
Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets Daniel Young
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_ -- Calcareous marl; gypsum, etc.; sulphur embedded in calcareous limestone; silicious limestone; tripoli, containing fossils of fish, insects 'eggs, etc.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888 Various
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Fish and insects, which are frequently found in strata of tripoli, which lie under sulphur beds, induce the belief that lakes formerly existed in Sicily.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888 Various
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In spite of what is to be found in books as to the ease with which nickel deposits may be polished, I find that the mat surface obtained by plating on an imperfectly polished cathode of iron is by no means easily polished either by fine emery, tripoli, or rouge.
On Laboratory Arts Richard Threlfall
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Putty powder, and even common whiting and water, are sometimes used for polishing; but they produce a very inferior effect to tripoli, except in the case of ivory, for which putty and water, used upon a rubber made of a hat, forms the best and quickest polish.
Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets Daniel Young
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Or, the powdered tripoli may be mixed up with a little pure oil, and used upon a ball of serge, or of chamois leather, which is better.
Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets Daniel Young
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Shoe size.
August 12, 2008
reesetee commented on the word tripoli
*snort*
August 12, 2008