'Mineral green' definitions:
Definition of 'Mineral green'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Definition of 'Mineral green'
From: GCIDE
- Green \Green\ (gr[=e]n), n.
- 1. The color of growing plants; the color of the solar spectrum intermediate between the yellow and the blue. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage; as, the village green. [1913 Webster]
- O'er the smooth enameled green. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths; -- usually in the plural. [1913 Webster]
- In that soft season when descending showers Call forth the greens, and wake the rising flowers. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 4. pl. Leaves and stems of young plants, as spinach, beets, etc., which in their green state are boiled for food. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Any substance or pigment of a green color. [1913 Webster]
- Alkali green (Chem.), an alkali salt of a sulphonic acid derivative of a complex aniline dye, resembling emerald green; -- called also Helvetia green.
- Berlin green. (Chem.) See under Berlin.
- Brilliant green (Chem.), a complex aniline dye, resembling emerald green in composition.
- Brunswick green, an oxychloride of copper.
- Chrome green. See under Chrome.
- Emerald green. (Chem.) (a) A complex basic derivative of aniline produced as a metallic, green crystalline substance, and used for dyeing silk, wool, and mordanted vegetable fiber a brilliant green; -- called also aldehyde green, acid green, malachite green, Victoria green, solid green, etc. It is usually found as a double chloride, with zinc chloride, or as an oxalate. (b) See Paris green (below).
- Gaignet's green (Chem.) a green pigment employed by the French artist, Adrian Gusgnet, and consisting essentially of a basic hydrate of chromium.
- Methyl green (Chem.), an artificial rosaniline dyestuff, obtained as a green substance having a brilliant yellow luster; -- called also light-green.
- Mineral green. See under Mineral.
- Mountain green. See Green earth, under Green, a.
- Paris green (Chem.), a poisonous green powder, consisting of a mixture of several double salts of the acetate and arsenite of copper. It has found very extensive use as a pigment for wall paper, artificial flowers, etc., but particularly as an exterminator of insects, as the potato bug; -- called also Schweinfurth green, {imperial green}, Vienna green, emerald qreen, and {mitis green}.
- Scheele's green (Chem.), a green pigment, consisting essentially of a hydrous arsenite of copper; -- called also Swedish green. It may enter into various pigments called parrot green, pickel green, Brunswick green, nereid green, or emerald green. [1913 Webster]