Word Meanings - STRUVITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A crystalline mineral found in guano. It is a hydrous phosphate of magnesia and ammonia.

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• FOUNDATION
  The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution,
• FOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Find.
• 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.
• AMMONIATED
  Combined or impregnated with ammonia.
• FOUNDATIONER
  One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
• MAGNESIA
  A light earthy white substance, consisting of magnesium oxide, and obtained by heating magnesium hydrate or carbonate, or by burning magnesium. It has a slightly alkaline reaction, and is used in medicine as a mild antacid laxative. See Magnesium.
• FOUNDEROUS
  Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke.
• FOUNDRESS
  A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund.
• FOUNDERY
  See FOUNDRY
• GUANO
  A substance found in great abundance on some coasts or islands frequented by sea fowls, and composed chiefly of their excrement. It is rich in phosphates and ammonia, and is used as a powerful fertilizer.
• MINERALOGICALLY
  According to the principles of, or with reference to, mineralogy.
• FOUNDLING
  A deserted or exposed infant; a child found without a parent or owner. Foundling hospital, a hospital for foundlings.
• 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.
• FOUNDING
  The art of smelting and casting metals.
• MINERALIST
  One versed in minerals; mineralogist.
• AMMONIACAL FERMENTATION
  Any fermentation process by which ammonia is formed, as that by which urea is converted into ammonium carbonate when urine is exposed to the air.
• CRYSTALLINE
  1. A crystalline substance. 2. See Aniline.
• AMMONIAC; AMMONIACAL
  Of or pertaining to ammonia, or possessing its properties; as, an ammoniac salt; ammoniacal gas. Ammoniacal engine, an engine in which the vapor of ammonia is used as the motive force. -- Sal ammoniac Etym: , the salt usually called chloride of
• FOUNDER
  One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
• PHOSPHATE
  A salt of phosphoric acid.
• IGUANOID
  Pertaining to the Iguanidæ.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• THOMAS PHOSPHATE; THOMAS SLAG
  See ABOVE
• SEMICRYSTALLINE
  Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter.
• METAPHOSPHATE
  A salt of metaphosphoric acid.
• HYPOCRYSTALLINE
  Partly crystalline; -- said of rock which consists of crystals imbedded in a glassy ground mass.
• MICROCRYSTALLINE
  Crystalline on a fine, or microscopic, scale; consisting of fine crystals; as, the ground mass of certain porphyrics is microcrystalline.
• AETHIOPS MINERAL
  See MINERAL
• ANHYDROUS
  Destitute of water; as, anhydrous salts or acids.
• PHANEROCRYSTALLINE
  Distinctly crystalline; -- used of rocks. Opposed to Ant: cryptocrystalline.
• PROFOUNDNESS
  The quality or state of being profound; profundity; depth. Hooker.
• PYROPHOSPHATE
  A salt of pyrophosphoric acid.