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Definition: Mineral blue
Mineral
\Min"er*al\, a.
1. Of or pertaining to minerals; consisting of a mineral or
of minerals; as, a mineral substance.
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2. Impregnated with minerals; as, mineral waters.
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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.
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Blue
\Blue\ (bl[=u]), n.
1. One of the seven colors into which the rays of light
divide themselves, when refracted through a glass prism;
the color of the clear sky, or a color resembling that,
whether lighter or darker; a pigment having such color.
Sometimes, poetically, the sky; as, to fly off into the
blue.
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2. A pedantic woman; a bluestocking. [Colloq.]
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3. pl. [Short for blue devils.] Low spirits; a fit of
despondency; melancholy. [Colloq.]
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Berlin blue, Prussian blue.
Mineral blue. See under
Mineral.
Prussian blue. See under
Prussian.
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