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mineralogy
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context petrology English) The branch of petrology that studies minerals. 2 Its mineral materials. 3 A treatise on mineralogy.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Detrital sediments are subdivided on the basis of grain size and mineralogy . ▪ He retained an interest in mineralogy and served as president of the Mineralogical Society 1888-91. ▪ He studied mineralogy at Freiburg after some ...
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Mineralogy is a mining company owned by Clive Palmer of Queensland , Australia . Mineralogy's mining projects are not in production or generating income. Mineralogy signed a deal with the Chinese infrastructure company CITIC Pacific to develop a small portion ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the branch of geology that studies minerals: their structure and properties and the ways of distinguishing them
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1680s, a hybrid from mineral (n.) + -logy or else from French minéralogie (1640s). Related: Mineralogist ; mineralogical .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Natural \Nat"u*ral\ (?; 135), a. [OE. naturel, F. naturel, fr. L. naturalis, fr. natura. See Nature .] Fixed or determined by nature; pertaining to the constitution of a thing; belonging to native character; according to nature; essential; characteristic; ...
Usage examples of mineralogy.
The two favorite studies of my youth were botany and mineralogy, and subsequently, when I learned that the use of simples frequently explained the whole history of a people, and the entire life of individuals in the East, as flowers betoken and symbolize a love affair, I have regretted that I was not a man, that I might have been a Flamel, a Fontana, or a Cabanis.
Steinfield persuaded the university authorities to allow selected samples from their collection to be loaned to the UNSA Mineralogy and Petrology Laboratories in Pasadena, California, for further testing of an extremely specialized nature, suitable equipment for which existed at only a few establishments in the world.
UNSA spokesman stated that data collected recently at the Lunar bases, following research at the University of Nebraska, Omaha, and the UNSA Mineralogy and Petrology Laboratories, Pasadena, California, indicate that a large-scale nuclear conflict took place on the Moon at the time the Lunarians were there.
General Carpenter asked for one hundred and fifty billion dollars, fifteen hundred ambitious dollar-a-year men, three thousand able experts in mineralogy, petrology, mass production, chemical warfare and air-traffic time study.
There was no opportunity to get myself certified until I came to New Seattle to get my degree in Synergistic Crystal Mineralogy at the university.
Miss Euthymia was not behind the rest in her attainments in classical or mathematical knowledge, and she was one of the very best students in the out-door branches,--botany, mineralogy, sketching from nature,-- to be found among the scholars of the Institute.
Webster was at this time Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy in Harvard University, a Doctor of Medicine and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the London Geological Society and the St.