How To Use Mineralogist In A Sentence
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Not surprisingly, Metung attracted a number of distinguished early holiday-makers, some of whom settled there permanently, including the explorer and mineralogist Dr. Alfred Howitt; His Honour Judge John Burnett Box; and John King, the second son of Rear Admiral Philip Parker King.
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I have a fragment of their plaster postiche copying the close-grained Egyptian granite; the oily lustre of the quartz is so fresh and the peculiar structure of the rock, with its mica scintillations, so admirably rendered as to deceive, after two thousand years, the eye of a trained mineralogist.]
Old Calabria
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The binoxide, or peroxide, is the black manganese of commerce, and the pyrolusite of mineralogists, and is by far the most abundant of the manganese ores.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883
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smithsonite" for the carbonate, and these meanings of the terms are now adopted by Dana and many other mineralogists.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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It is rarely found as crystals, but is commonly found as what mineralogists describe as foliated masses.
Molybdenum
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An audience of amateur and professional mineralogists and geologists is expected.
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By 1927, an employee of Tiffany & Co. was complaining that "no gem ever caused the mineralogist or archaeologist quite the heartache that jade has," although the complaint was prompted more by commercial frustration than academic enquiry.
Nothing Gold Can Stay
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Those professional mineralogists, geologists, collectors, and curators lucky enough to possess the complete set have at their fingertips the critical data for those species known at the time each volume was prepared.
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Frederick Mohs (1773-1839), a German mineralogist who devised a scale for determining the hardness of an unknown rock or mineral, which is often very useful in the identification process.
Mohs, Frederick
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More than half of Dana's published work is on geological subjects, but he was a mineralogist and a zoologist as well as a geologist.
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Also, I feel sure that professional geologists, mineralogists, and petrologists who read the booklet will see several definitions they would modify.
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There are, for instance, several different minerals commonly classified under the name of felspar, which have been distinguished by mineralogists by the names of orthoclase, albite, oligoclase, and labradorite; and there are at least two sorts of mica, two of hornblende, and many varieties of zeolites.
Elements of Agricultural Chemistry
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The head was made of a red stone, known by mineralogists under the term of killas, and is often found to accompany copper ore: it is procured on the river St. Peter's, one of the principal branches of the Mississippi.
Travels in the Interior of America, in the Years 1809, 1810, and 1811
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“We are in the midst of another tremendous era of reclassification — like the scientists of the 18th century,” says Robert Downs, a mineralogist who with his University of Arizona colleague Bonner Denton, a chemist, has spearheaded the development of Raman technology.
Everything Is Illuminated
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Many have suspected that these regions will prove diamantiferous; and it is reported that an experienced French mineralogist, who has visited the South African diggings, landed at Assini and proposed to canoe up the Tando River to the Tákwá mines, prospecting in search of his specialty.
To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative
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Köchel was a botanist and mineralogist as well as musical scholar, but Mozart was the genius.
Follow the Money
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I am in love with the amount of research it took to reveal the real James Smithson, (1765-1829) the British chemist, mineralogist, and philanthropist who donated $500,000 in 1836 to help establish the Smithsonian Institution, "an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge.
Heather McElhatton: The Lost World of James Smithson: Science, Revolution, and the Birth of the Smithsonian
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The problem of color description has been a bane to mineralogists.
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He has a face of that rubicund, knobby type I have heard an indignant mineralogist speak of as botryoidal, and about it waves a quantity of disorderly blond hair.
A Modern Utopia
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A pirate, a rural French bug collector, a Soviet mineralogist and a Holy Roman Emperor count among this volume's contributors.
Gift Guide: Best of Science
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* Amphibole is in general very rare at Teneriffe, not only in the modern lithoid lavas, but also in the ancient basalts, as has been observed by M. Cordier, who resided longer at the Canaries than any other mineralogist.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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Early in the 1800s, mineralogists recognized that tiger's-eye was a fibrous variety of quartz, or silicon dioxide.
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These layers can be seen in muscovite mica specimens because it can be split (mineralogists call this feature cleavage) into very thin, flexible, transparent layers.
Mica
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Also a mineralogist and scientific writer in periodicals.
Index of People
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Lectures will cover both species and locality mineralogy and will be presented by professional mineralogists and geologists, mining engineers, and professors.
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The name indicolite which mineralogists give to these blue stones suggests the indigo-blue color which they afford.
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
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It is most probable that the stone described by Marco Polo was not a ruby, but an amethyst, which is found in large crystals in Ceylon, and which modern mineralogists believe to be the "hyacinth" of the ancients.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
