'Mineral acids' definitions:
Definition of 'Mineral acids'
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- Mineral \Min"er*al\, a.
- 1. Of or pertaining to minerals; consisting of a mineral or of minerals; as, a mineral substance. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Impregnated with minerals; as, mineral waters. [1913 Webster]
- Mineral acids (Chem.), inorganic acids, as sulphuric, nitric, phosphoric, hydrochloric, acids, etc., as distinguished from the organic acids.
- Mineral blue, the name usually given to azurite, when reduced to an impalpable powder for coloring purposes.
- Mineral candle, a candle made of paraffin.
- Mineral caoutchouc, an elastic mineral pitch, a variety of bitumen, resembling caoutchouc in elasticity and softness. See Caoutchouc, and Elaterite.
- Mineral chameleon (Chem.) See Chameleon mineral, under Chameleon.
- Mineral charcoal. See under Charcoal.
- Mineral cotton. See Mineral wool (below).
- Mineral green, a green carbonate of copper; malachite.
- Mineral kingdom (Nat. Sci.), that one of the three grand divisions of nature which embraces all inorganic objects, as distinguished from plants or animals.
- Mineral oil. See Naphtha, and Petroleum.
- Mineral paint, a pigment made chiefly of some natural mineral substance, as red or yellow iron ocher.
- Mineral patch. See Bitumen, and Asphalt.
- Mineral right, the right of taking minerals from land.
- Mineral salt (Chem.), a salt of a mineral acid.
- Mineral tallow, a familiar name for hatchettite, from its fatty or spermaceti-like appearance.
- Mineral water. See under Water.
- Mineral wax. See Ozocerite.
- Mineral wool, a fibrous wool-like material, made by blowing a powerful jet of air or steam through melted slag. It is a poor conductor of heat. [1913 Webster]