Lexic.us

Definition of Steel gray

1. Noun. Slightly purplish or bluish dark grey.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Steel Gray

Literary usage of Steel gray

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

1. A Text-book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and by Edward Salisbury Dana, William Ebenezer Ford (1922)
"Color steel-gray. Wittichen, Baden. Probably a mixture and not a definite species. ... Color steel-gray to dark lead- gray. Streak grayish black. Opaque. ..."

2. A Text-book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and by Edward Salisbury Dana, James Dwight Dana (1877)
"252), G. =C-(i-4, color and streak light steel-gray, yields also sulphurous fumes ... 240), color dark steel-gray, contains also silver. 8. ..."

3. A Text-book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and by Edward Salisbury Dana (1922)
"Color iron-black to steel-gray, in thin splinters deep blood-red. ... Color steel-gray. Wittichen, Baden. Probably a mixture and not a definite species. ..."

4. A Dictionary of Chemistry: On the Basis of Mr. Nicholson's, in which the ...by Andrew Ure, William Nicholson by Andrew Ure, William Nicholson (1821)
"Colour steel-gray. Massive. Shining. Cleavage double rectangular. Fragments cubical. Brittle. Sp. gr. 6. to 6.7. It melts before the blow-pipe, ..."

5. Genetic Studies of Rabbits and Rats by William Ernest Castle (1922)
"steel-gray offspring in various matings, and this shows that they did inherit ... The steel-gray Flemish buck 2, used in crosses with both Polish and ..."

6. A Complete Treatise on the Electro-deposition of Metals: Comprising Electro by Georg Langbein (1909)
"By using a strong electric current the objects may also be coated with a steel-gray deposit of arsenic in a heated arsenic bath. For coloring copper dark ..."

7. A Complete Treatise on the Electro-deposition of Metals by Georg Langbein (1898)
"To produce a steel-gray color upon copper immerse the clean and pickled objects in a heated solution of chloride of antimony in hydrochloric acid. ..."

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