Word Meanings - FRANKLINITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kind of mineral of the spinel group.

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• SPINEL; SPINELLE
  A mineral occuring in octahedrons of great hardness and various colors, as red, green, blue, brown, and black, the red variety being the gem spinel ruby. It consist essentially of alumina and magnesia, but commonly contains iron and sometimes also
• SPINEL
  Bleached yarn in making the linen tape called inkle; unwrought inkle. Knight.
• MINERALIZATION
  The conversion of a cell wall into a material of a stony nature. (more info) 1. The process of mineralizing, or forming a mineral by combination of a metal with another element; also, the process of converting into a mineral, as a bone or a plant.
• SPINELESS
  Having no spine.
• MINERALOGICALLY
  According to the principles of, or with reference to, mineralogy.
• MINERALOGY
  1. The science which treats of minerals, and teaches how to describe, distinguish, and classify them. 2. A treatise or book on this science.
• MINERALIST
  One versed in minerals; mineralogist.
• GROUP
  A variously limited assemblage of animals or planta, having some resemblance, or common characteristics in form or structure. The term has different uses, and may be made to include certain species of a genus, or a whole genus, or certain genera,
• MINERALOGIZE
  To study mineralogy by collecting and examining minerals. Miss Edgeworth.
• GROUPER
  One of several species of valuable food fishes of the genus Epinephelus, of the family Serranidæ, as the red grouper, or brown snapper , and the black grouper, or warsaw , both from Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. The tripletail .
• GROUPING
  The disposal or relative arrangement of figures or objects, as in, drawing, painting, and sculpture, or in ornamental design.
• MINERALIZER
  An element which is combined with a metal, thus forming an ore. Thus, in galena, or lead ore, sulphur is a mineralizer; in hematite, oxygen is a mineralizer.
• MINERALIZE
  1. To transform into a mineral. In these caverns the bones are not mineralized. Buckland. 2. To impregnate with a mineral; as, mineralized water.
• MINERALOGIST
  A carrier shell . (more info) 1. One versed in mineralogy; one devoted to the study of minerals.
• MINERAL
  1. An inorganic species or substance occurring in nature, having a definite chemical composition and usually a distinct crystalline form. Rocks, except certain glassy igneous forms, are either simple minerals or aggregates of minerals. 2. A mine.
• MINERALOGICAL
  Of or pertaining to mineralogy; as, a mineralogical table.
• SUBGROUP
  A subdivision of a group, as of animals. Darwin.
• AETHIOPS MINERAL
  See MINERAL
• WENLOCK GROUP
  The middle subdivision of the Upper Silurian in Great Britain; -- so named from the typical locality in Shropshire.
• AGGROUPMENT
  Arrangement in a group or in groups; grouping.
• LUDLOW GROUP
  A subdivision of the British Upper Silurian lying below the Old Red Sandstone; -- so named from the Ludlow, in Western England. See the Chart of Geology.
• AGROUPMENT
  See AGGROUPMENT
• LARAMIE GROUP
  An extensive series of strata, principally developed in the Rocky Mountain region, as in the Laramie Mountains, and formerly supposed to be of the Tertiary age, but now generally regarded as Cretaceous, or of intermediate and transitional character.
• POTSDAM GROUP
  A subdivision of the Primordial or Cambrian period in American geology; -- so named from the sandstone of Potsdam, New York. See Chart of Geology.
• QUEBEC GROUP
  The middle of the three groups into which the rocks of the Canadian period have been divided in the American Lower Silurian system. See the Chart of Geology.
• COLORADO GROUP
  A subdivision of the cretaceous formation of western North America, especially developed in Colorado and the upper Missouri region.
• ESPINEL
  A kind of ruby. See Spinel.