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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or containing aluminum or alum.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to, containing, or having the properties of alum or alumina: as, aluminous minerals or waters.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to or containing alum, or alumina.
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- adjective chemistry of or pertaining to
alumina oralum
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- adjective pertaining to or containing aluminum or alum
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Examples
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In highly acid and aluminous soils, special methods usually are needed to establish leucaena, but they may be worth the trouble.
Chapter 7 1985
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The original process may be summed up under the following heads: Printing or padding with an aluminous mordant, which is fixed and cleaned in the usual manner; dyeing in alizarin for reds with addition of calcium acetate; padding in sulpholeic acid and drying; steaming and soaping.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 286, June 25, 1881 Various
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The plants should be laid down in rows of five or six inches distant from each other, in a soil moderately damp, of an aluminous or clayey nature, and free to a great extent of the more soluble alkalies, potash and soda, as these, by absorption, may destroy the coloring matter of the plant, and so diminish its value as
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It is a species of lake, having a considerable proportion of aluminous base, to which its paler tint is due.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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-- The soil best suiting the sugar cane is aluminous rather than the contrary, tenacious without being heavy, readily allowing excessive moisture to drain away, yet not light.
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There may be added to the aluminous mordant a little salt of tin to raise the tone.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 286, June 25, 1881 Various
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Gripes, by means of the aluminous sharp Particles of its Earth; Its Air is also so bad, as has obliged several to remove from its Situation for their
The London and Country Brewer Anonymous
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-- N.B. Do not use clay for your hearth bed unless you can get a highly aluminous clay, and can give it full time to dry before the forge fire is lit.
Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
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The material most prized for the purpose of pipe-making is the beautiful red pipe-stone of the Coteau des Prairies, which is an indurated aluminous stone, highly colored with red oxide of iron.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings
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In others, again, are found considerable quantities of soft powdery iron oxide or "gossan," and compounds such as limonite, aluminous clay, etc., which, under the action of the crushing mill become finely divided and float off in water as "slimes," carrying with them atoms of gold, often microscopically small.
Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
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