metalline

Metals also may be said to have a body, a soul, and a spirit; there is a specific bodily, or material, form belonging to each metal; there is a metalline soul characteristic of this or that class of metals; there is a spirit, or inner immaterial potency, which is the very essence of all metals.

The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry M. M. Pattison Muir

Its visible form is vile; it defiles metalline bodies, and no one can readily imagine that the pearly drink of bright Phoebus should spring from thence.

The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry M. M. Pattison Muir

Time effects less change on this colour than on other bright vegetal yellows; but white lead and other metalline pigments injure, while terrene and alkaline substances redden it.

Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field

My cheeks were of that metalline description that never knew a blush, before an audience of one or many.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

He thought himself able to recall the erring metal to the path of metalline virtue, to lead the extravagant mineral back to the moral home-life from which it had been seduced, to show the doubting and vacillating salt what it was ignorantly seeking, and to help it to find the unrealised object of its search.

The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry M. M. Pattison Muir

This dissolves in alkalies, and combines with metalline bases to form various coloured compounds, termed _Purpurates_.

Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field

There seems no doubt that Paracelsus discovered many facts which became of great importance in chemistry: he prepared the inflammable gas we now call hydrogen, by the reaction between iron filings and oil of vitriol; he distinguished metals from substances which had been classed with metals but lacked the essential metalline character of ductility; he made medicinal preparations of mercury, lead and iron, and introduced many new and powerful drugs, notably laudanum.

The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry M. M. Pattison Muir

And likewise, according to the alchemists, in the metals, there is the "body" or outward form and properties, "metalline soul" or spirit,14 and finally, the all-pervading essence of all metals.

Alchemy: Ancient and Modern 1922

Rubies and several sorts of minerals abound, and the rocks are for the most part composed of a metalline stone made use of to cut and polish other precious stones.

The Arabian Nights Their Best-known Tales Unknown 1889

The fundamental principle of alchemy was the natural process of development of metalline bodies.

History of the Conflict between Religion and Science 1881