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Any naturally occurring inorganic material that has a (more or less) definite chemical composition and characteristic physical properties.

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Any inorganic material (as distinguished from animal or vegetable).

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(nutrition) Any inorganic element that is essential to nutrition; a dietary mineral.

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Mineral water.

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A soft drink, particularly a single serve bottle or can.

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A mine or mineral deposit.

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A poisonous or dangerous substance.

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Of, related to, or containing minerals

It is an attractively built city, and has good mineral springs.

The mineral wealth of the duchy is not inconsiderable.

It is readily soluble in warm dilute mineral acids forming cobaltous salts.

Mineral springs are very numerous, and of great variety.

The Australian states have been bountifully supplied with mineral fuel.

The quantity of beer is about the same, the greater part of the beer drunk being imported from Germany, while the production of artificial mineral waters has somewhat decreased.

Scheelite, another mineral of tungsten, is also found in Queensland.

Black coal forms one of the principal resources of New South Wales; and in the other states the deposits of this valuable mineral are being rapidly developed.

There is a considerable trade (not very large for export, however) in natural mineral Waters, which are often excellent.

Deposits of copper, tin, iron and tungsten have been discovered, and a variety of other mineral products (graphite, mica, spodumene, coal, petroleum, &c.).

Arrived in the river Plate in 1527, rumours reached Cabot of mineral wealth and a rich and civilized empire in the far interior, and he resolved to abandon surveying for exploration.

Behind the Royal Military Academy is a mineral well, the "Shooter's Hill waters" mentioned by Evelyn.

Mineral resources are few, but important.

In the then state of knowledge, it appeared that all the species of animals and plants could be arranged in one series, in such a manner that, by insensible gradations, the mineral passed into the plant, the plant into the polype, the polype into the worm, and so, through gradually higher forms of life, to man, at the summit of the animated world.

At the mineral baths of Ilidze near the city, where many Roman remains have been found, a hydropathic establishment was opened in 1899.

It owes its origin to its mineral waters, which have long been known to the inhabitants of Caucasia.

The mineral had, however, been earlier known as a blue powdery substance, called "blue ironearth," met with in peat-bogs, in bog iron-ore, or with fossil bones and shells.

The mineral springs, which belong to the adjoining abbey of Tepl, are eight in number, and are used both for bathing and drinking, except the Marienquelle, which is used only for bathing.

Besides the mineral water baths there are also moor or mud-baths, and the peat used for these baths is the richest in iron in the world.

Molybdenum trisulphide, MoS3, is obtained by saturating a solution of an alkaline molybdate with sulphuretted hydrogen and adding a mineral acid.

The titanates are well marked in the mineral kingdom.

The mineral springs are vested in the corporation.

The town has a mineral spring, which is used for bathing, being efficacious for rheumatism and other complaints.

The mineral waters of Mount Clemens are beneficial to patients suffering from rheumatism, blood diseases and nervous disorders.

Imports include woven goods, metals, ironware, machinery, tea, wines and spirits, mineral oils, opium, paper, and arms and powder.

Much the best practical source of helium is thorianite, a mineral imported from Ceylon for the manufacture of thoria.

At Selinitza, near Avlona, there is a remarkable deposit of mineral pitch which was extensively worked in Roman times; mining operations are still carried on here, but in a somewhat primitive fashion.

Few attempts, however, have been made to prospect systematically for this valuable mineral.

It is a species of cannel coal, somewhat similar to the Boghead mineral of Scotland, but yielding a much larger percentage of volatile hydro-carbon than the Scottish mineral.

The principal mineral resource of Vermont is its building and monumental stone, including marble and granite and a small amount of limestone.

On the same side of the Gede is the health resort of Sindanglaya (founded 1850-1860), with a mineral spring containing salt, and close by is the country residence of Chipanas, belonging to the governor-general.

The metal is quite permanent in dry air, but in moist air it becomes coated with a superficial layer of the oxide; it burns on heating to redness, forming a brown coloured oxide; and is readily soluble in mineral acids with formation of the corresponding salts.

The mineral springs are important, including those at Wiesbaden, Homburg, Langenschwalbach, Nenndorf, Schlangenbad and Soden.

There are three stadia, or moments, in this process of nature - (i) the mechanical moment, or matter devoid of individuality; (2) the physical moment, or matter which has particularized itself in bodies - the solar system; and (3) the organic moment, or organic beings, beginning with the geological organism - or the mineral kingdom, plants and animals.

It appears, however, to have been partly derived from yet earlier Tertiary deposits (Eocene); and it occurs also as a derivative mineral in later formations, such as the drift.

In the Ebers papyrus, 1550 B.C., mention is made of blisters, ointments, clysters, mineral and vegetable drugs.

The medicinal preparations which required the aid of a furnace, such as mineral earths, were undertaken by the chymists, who probably derived their name from the Alchymists, who flourished from the 14th to the 16th centuries.

The increasing development of the wood as the tree grows older is largely due to the demands for the conduction of water and mineral matters dissolved in it, which are made by the increased number of leaves which from year to year it bears, and which must each be put into communication with the central mass by the formation of new vascular bundles.

This serves a double purpose, bringing up from the soil continually a supply of the soluble mineral matters necessary for their metabolic processes, \vhich only enter the plant in solutions of extreme dilution, and at the same time keeping the plant cool by the process of evaporation.

If excess of a mineral acid be added to a solution of an alkaline thiogermanate a white precipitate of germanium disulphide, GeS2, is obtained.

Impurities render the mineral grey, greenish or reddish, bituminous matter being often present in the massive varieties.

Sulphur is occasionally found crystallized in Carrara marble; and the mineral occurs also in Calabria.

Sulphur dioxide and sulphuretted hydrogen are present in volcanic exhalations and in many mineral waters.

The hinterland of Liberia has been but slightly explored for mineral wealth.

The streak is blue, but lighter than the colour of the mineral in mass.

It is thus a common mineral in all copper mines, and sometimes occurs in large masses, as in Arizona and in South Australia, where it has been worked as an ore of copper, of which element it contains 55%.

Petroleum ranks second to coal among the state's mineral resources.

The arrival of these first-fruits of the mineral wealth of the southern continent gained for the estuary of the Parana the name which it has since borne, that of Rio de la Plata, the silver river.

It is monobasic and yields salts which only crystallize with great difficulty; when liberated, from these salts by a mineral acid it forms a syrupy nonvolatile mass.

Pharmacosiderite is a mineral of secondary origin, the crystals occurring attached to gozzany quartz in the upper part of veins of copper ore.