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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The gums were pared away, in many successive operations; and the wounds were washed with aluminous water.
From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Franklin Bache
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?
They are divisible into three classes—the stannic cerulian blue, the aluminous cobalt blues, and the siliceous smalts.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter
Potassium bisulphate is useful in the preliminary treatment of refractory aluminous ores.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
The red dyes, kermes and madder, and the yellow dye weld, are especially mordant or adjective dyes: they are all dyed on an aluminous basis.
From Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society by Various
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