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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The use of the blowpipe has been inferred from metalline remains discovered in sepulchral tumuli of the Mississippi valley.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various
Its visible form is vile; it defiles metalline bodies, and no one can readily imagine that the pearly drink of bright Phœbus should spring from thence.
From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by Muir, M. M. Pattison
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 Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison)
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 Salter, Thomas
The fundamental principle of alchemy was the natural process of development of metalline bodies.
From History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science by Draper, John William
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