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mineral
  1. (geology) Any naturally occurring inorganic material that has a (more or less) definite chemical composition and characteristic physical properties.
  2. Any inorganic material (as distinguished from animal or vegetable).
  3. (nutrition) Any inorganic element that is essential to nutrition; a dietary mineral.
  4. (Britain) Mineral water.
  5. (Ireland, South Africa, informal) A soft drink, particularly a single serve bottle or can.
  6. (obsolete) A mine or mineral deposit.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “Quartz is the second most abundant mineral in Earth's continental crust, behind feldspar.”
mineralization
  1. A form of fossilization in which the organic parts of an organism are replaced by minerals.
  2. The breakdown of organic matter in the soil to form soluble inorganic compounds.
  3. (medicine) The deposition of calcium salts in abnormal parts of the skeleton.
  4. The addition of minerals to water to make a mineral water.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “Some ore deposit types, such as volcanogenic massive sulphide deposits, can contain both syngenetic and epigenetic mineralization.”
      “In the figure is a central channel, and in the lower part of the image microbiota are apparent owing to their mineralization.”
      “As a whole, the mineralization and nitrification of nitrogen in the manual loessial soil was higher than that in the red loessial soil.”
mineralogy
  1. (petrology) The branch of petrology that studies minerals.
  2. Its mineral materials.
  3. A treatise on mineralogy.
  4. Examples:
    1. “A difference is also observed between the mineralogy of the arenosols of the north area from the ones developed in the south coast.”
      “Normally, in mineralogy, argentiferous gold containing 20-25 per cent of silver is referred to as electrum.”
      “The specimens were then ground to a fine powder and analyzed individually in an X-ray diffractometer to determine carbonate polymorph mineralogy.”
mineraloid
  1. A substance that resembles a mineral but does not exhibit crystallinity.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The mineraloid is usually found in the ore cinnabar, where it must go through a heating and condensing process to be obtained.”
      “To recapitulate animal-like, vegetable-like and mineraloid states, in a frankly degenerating manner, is certainly not very pleasant.”
      “Thielsen's spire-like top is hit by lightning so frequently that some rocks on the summit have melted into a rare mineraloid known as lechatelierite, a variety of fulgurite.”
mineralizer
  1. An element which is combined with a metal to form an ore.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Mineralization is carried out in a microwave mineralizer Milestone Ethos.”
mineralist
  1. One versed in minerals; a mineralogist.
mineralomass
  1. The total amount of minerals within a biomass
mineralisation
  1. Alternative spelling of mineralization
  2. Examples:
    1. “Again, the older events at 500-million years, are also tied up with when the gold mineralisation was occurring in Australia.”
      “Nitrogen mineralisation was measured by aerobic incubation of soil that had been fallowed or had grown annual crops or perennial pastures.”
      “The mineral waters vary considerably in temperature, mineralisation, radon, silicic acid and fluorine content, and are suitable for treatment of a wide range of diseases.”
mineralogist
  1. A person expert in mineralogy.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “More than half of Dana's published work is on geological subjects, but he was a mineralogist and a zoologist as well as a geologist.”
      “Both the mineralogist and metallurgist touch the problem but they do not cover it.”
      “The mineralogist obtains his accurate measurements by means of an instrument known as the goniometer.”
minerology
  1. Dated form of mineralogy.
  2. Examples:
    1. “On Albert's establishment of minerology as a research discipline, see Albertus Magnus Book of Minerals, trans.”
      “Nair's enthusiasm stems from the findings of the moon minerology mapper on board Chandrayaan-1 that covered about 97 per cent of the lunar surface.”
minerogenesis
  1. (geology) The formation of minerals.
minerall
  1. Obsolete form of mineral.
mineralizations
mineralogists
mineralomasses
  1. plural of mineralomass
mineralizers
  1. plural of mineralizer
mineralists
  1. plural of mineralist
mineraloids
  1. plural of mineraloid
  2. Examples:
    1. “Rock or stone is a natural substance, a solid aggregate of one or more minerals or mineraloids.”
mineralogies
  1. plural of mineralogy
mineralls
  1. plural of minerall
minerals
  1. plural of mineral
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The question is whether ceramics known as gabbroic pottery, including Trevisker ware, include gabbro-rock minerals added as a temper.”
      “Other minerals found here are the red ochre, soap stone, white quartz and molding sand.”
      “The minerals are passed on in a sperm packet during mating, to enrich the eggs.”
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