'Mineral wool' definitions:
Definition of 'mineral wool'
From: WordNet
noun
A light fibrous material used as an insulator [syn: mineral wool, rock wool]
Definition of 'Mineral wool'
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 wool'
From: GCIDE
- Wool \Wool\ (w[oo^]l), n. [OE. wolle, wulle, AS. wull; akin to D. wol, OHG. wolla, G. wolle, Icel. & Sw. ull, Dan. uld, Goth, wulla, Lith. vilna, Russ. volna, L. vellus, Skr. [=u]r[.n][=a] wool, v[.r] to cover. [root]146, 287. Cf. Flannel, Velvet.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The soft and curled, or crisped, species of hair which grows on sheep and some other animals, and which in fineness sometimes approaches to fur; -- chiefly applied to the fleecy coat of the sheep, which constitutes a most essential material of clothing in all cold and temperate climates. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Wool consists essentially of keratin. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled. [1913 Webster]
- Wool of bat and tongue of dog. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Bot.) A sort of pubescence, or a clothing of dense, curling hairs on the surface of certain plants. [1913 Webster]
- Dead pulled wool, wool pulled from a carcass.
- Mineral wool. See under Mineral.
- Philosopher's wool. (Chem.) See Zinc oxide, under Zinc.
- Pulled wool, wool pulled from a pelt, or undressed hide.
- Slag wool. Same as Mineral wool, under Mineral.
- Wool ball, a ball or mass of wool.
- Wool burler, one who removes little burs, knots, or extraneous matter, from wool, or the surface of woolen cloth.
- Wool comber. (a) One whose occupation is to comb wool. (b) A machine for combing wool.
- Wool grass (Bot.), a kind of bulrush (Scirpus Eriophorum) with numerous clustered woolly spikes.
- Wool scribbler. See Woolen scribbler, under Woolen, a.
- Wool sorter's disease (Med.), a disease, resembling malignant pustule, occurring among those who handle the wool of goats and sheep.
- Wool staple, a city or town where wool used to be brought to the king's staple for sale. [Eng.]
- Wool stapler. (a) One who deals in wool. (b) One who sorts wool according to its staple, or its adaptation to different manufacturing purposes.
- Wool winder, a person employed to wind, or make up, wool into bundles to be packed for sale. [1913 Webster]