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Definition of Tincal
1. n. Crude native borax, formerly imported from Thibet. It was once the chief source of boric compounds. Cf. Borax.
Definition of Tincal
1. Noun. (chemistry dated) crude native borax, formerly imported from Tibet, and once the chief source of boric compounds ¹
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Definition of Tincal
1. crude borax [n -S]
Medical Definition of Tincal
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Tincal
Literary usage of Tincal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Applied Chemistry: In Manufactures, Arts, and Domestic Economy by Edward Andrew Parnell (1844)
"For a long time the process of refining tincal was practised in Europe only at
Venice, ... The following is one of the modern processes for refining tincal. ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1832)
"It consists of Tin, 34.00 Copper, 36.00 Iron, 2.00 Sulphur, 25.00 It is found
only at St. Agnes, in Cornwall, tincal. (See Boracic Acid. ..."
3. A Treatise on Earthy and Other Minerals and Mining by David Christopher Davies (1884)
"... Atacama—Statistics of Production—Boron—Boracic Acid—Composition of the Lagoons
of Tuscany—Borax—The tincal Trade of Thibet—Borax in Nepaul, in Iceland, ..."
4. A Treatise on Earthy and Other Minerals and Mining by David Christopher Davies (1888)
"... and Chili—The Desert of Atacama—Statistics of Production—Boron—Boracic
Acid—Composition of the Lagoons of Tuscany—Borax—The tincal Trade of Thibet—Borax ..."
5. A Treatise on Earthly and Other Minerals and Mining by David Christopher Davies (1892)
"... Atacama—Statistics of Production—Boron—Boracic Acid—Composition of the Lagoons
of Tuscany—Borax—The tincal Trade of Thibet—Borax in Nepaul, in Iceland, ..."
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