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Definition of Metalline
1. a. Pertaining to, or resembling, a metal; metallic; as, metalline properties.
2. n. A substance of variable composition, but resembling a soft, dark-colored metal, used in the bearings of machines for obviating friction, and as a substitute for lubricants.
Definition of Metalline
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Metalline
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Metalline
Literary usage of Metalline
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Elements of Chemistry by Thomas Thomson (1810)
"As there are twenty- seven metals, it is obvious that the genera of metalline
salts are twenty-seven. GENUS I. Salts of Gold. The salts of gold are soluble ..."
2. An universal etymological English dictionaryby Nathan Bailey by Nathan Bailey (1724)
"... like Marble. o( Mineral Stone, 'a Term for a Mineral Body, having in it fome
metalline Pans, ..."
3. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1832)
"Experiments and Observations on certain Stony and metalline Substances, which at
different Times are said to have fallen on the Earth; also on various Kinds ..."
4. A System of Chemistry by Thomas Thomson (1810)
"OF metalline SALTS. 1 HE action of the acids on metallic bodies, and the si- line
compounds formed by their combination with them, were some of the first ..."
5. Elements of the Theory and Practice of Chymistry by Pierre Joseph Macquer (1758)
"A metalline calx prepared in this manner ... effectually and thoroughly the metalline
... that is, both in a metalline form, or both in the form of ..."
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