adjective
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of, resembling, or relating to metals
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containing metals or metal ions
Etymology
Origin of metalline
1425–75; late Middle English metalline < Medieval Latin metallīnus of metal. See metal, -ine 1
Example Sentences
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This dissolves in alkalies, and combines with metalline bases to form various coloured compounds, termed Purpurates.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter
My cheeks were of that metalline description that never knew a blush, before an audience of one or many.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
The fundamental principle of alchemy was the natural process of development of metalline bodies.
From History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science by John William Draper
There is a substance of a metalline species which looks so cloudy that the universe will have nothing to do with it.
From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by M. M. Pattison Muir
The life of metals is a secret fatness; of salts, the spirit of aqua fortis; of pearls, their splendour; of marcasites and antimony, a tingeing metalline spirit; of arsenics, a mineral and coagulated poison.
From Heroes of Science Chemists by M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison) Muir
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