aluminous
Americanadjective
adjective
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resembling aluminium
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another word for aluminiferous
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of aluminous
1535–45; < French alumineux or Latin alūminōsus; see alum 1, -ous
Example Sentences
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This is very characteristic of a pure aluminous mordant, and of one containing iron.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines
The stones hereabouts were mostly fissile, horny; some black and aluminous, but generally horny and spontaneously decomposing, with silvery talc, rarely any quartz.
From Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 by Carl von Linn?
Pertaining to or containing alum, or alumina; as, aluminous minerals, aluminous solution.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
Although not to be ranked with ultramarine, the stannic and aluminous blues may be described as durable, or at least as durable rather than semi-stable.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter
For the most part they consist mainly of aluminous silicates, some of them being highly acid compounds with 75% or more of silica.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
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