aluminous
Americanadjective
adjective
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resembling aluminium
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another word for aluminiferous
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Etymology
Origin of aluminous
1535–45; < French alumineux or Latin alūminōsus; see alum 1, -ous
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Pertaining to or containing alum, or alumina; as, aluminous minerals, aluminous solution.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
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?
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
There may be employed with the aluminous base, either the arseniate, the borate, or the phosphate of cobalt; but the latter in preference, as it produces the purest colour.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter
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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