aluminous
Americanadjective
adjective
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resembling aluminium
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another word for aluminiferous
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Origin of aluminous
1535–45; < French alumineux or Latin alūminōsus; see alum 1, -ous
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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 Salter, Thomas
Earths, a term applied in geology to certain loosely aggregated siliceous and aluminous materials, the detritus of pre-existing rocks.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various
It is a species of lake, having a considerable proportion of aluminous base, to which its paler tint is due.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas
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 Linn?, Carl von
That when they have melted the gold and purified it by means of a kind of aluminous earth, the residue left is electrum.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
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