Definition of Aluminous

1. Adjective. Pertaining to or containing aluminum or alum.

Partainyms: Aluminum
Derivative terms: Aluminum

Definition of Aluminous

1. a. Pertaining to or containing alum, or alumina; as, aluminous minerals, aluminous solution.

Definition of Aluminous

1. Adjective. (chemistry) Of or pertaining to alumina or alum. ¹

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Definition of Aluminous

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Aluminous

aluminizes
aluminizing
alumino-
aluminoceladonite
aluminocopiapite
aluminocopiapites
aluminohydride
aluminon
aluminophosphate
aluminophosphates
aluminosilicate
aluminosilicates
aluminosis
aluminothermy
aluminotype
aluminous (current term)
aluminoxane
aluminoxanes
alumins
aluminum
aluminum acetate
aluminum acetotartrate
aluminum acetylsalicylate
aluminum ammonium sulfate
aluminum aspirin
aluminum bismuth oxide
aluminum breakthrough
aluminum bronze
aluminum business
aluminum carbonate

Literary usage of Aluminous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elements of Chemistry, and Natural History: To which is Prefixed the by Antoine-François de Fourcroy (1796)
"The nitric acid with aluminous earth. r Argillaceous nitre. aluminous ... The muriatic acid with aluminous earth. f Argillaceous marine fait. ..."

2. Elements of Chemical and Physical Geology by Gustav Bischof (1855)
"It has not, hitherto, been possible to represent the com position of the aluminous varieties of hornblende in the same manner as thut of the hornblende ..."

3. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Andrew Miller (1873)
"The aluminous marls are extensively used in the manufacture of the ... (670) Other aluminous Minerals.—The zeolites are hyd double silicates in which the ..."

4. Chemical and Geological Essays by Thomas Sterry Hunt (1891)
"The aluminous sediments of tin- second class are, however, represented in ... These basic aluminous minerals form, however, but an insignificant part of the ..."

5. Geological Studies by Alexander Winchell (1886)
"aluminous Bocks. Passing to aluminous rocks, we have first the fine white slate, ... But the greater number of aluminous rocks are characterized by a clayey ..."

6. Report of the Annual Meeting (1880)
"On a Neio Process for the Production, from aluminous Minerals containing Iron, of Sulphate of Alumina free from Iron. By JW KYNASTON, FOS, FIO In this paper ..."

7. The Mineral Industry by Richard Pennefather Rothwell (1915)
"ABRASIVES ARTIFICIAL aluminous ABRASIVES BY LE ... No revolutionary changes have taken place in the manufacture of aluminous abrasives during the past year, ..."

8. The Panorama of Science and Art: Embracing the Sciences of Aerostation by James Smith (1815)
"aluminous FOSSILS. aluminous or argillaceous stones are very abundant; with some rare exceptions, they are all soft enough to be cut with a knife, ..."

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