Mineral vs Iquiqueite - What's the difference?
mineral | iquiqueite |
(geology) Any naturally occurring inorganic material that has a (more or less) definite chemical composition and characteristic physical properties.
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Any inorganic material (as distinguished from animal or vegetable).
Any inorganic element that is essential to nutrition; a dietary mineral.
(British) Mineral water.
(Ireland, South Africa, informal) A soft drink, particularly a single serve bottle or can.
(obsolete) A mine or mineral .
* 1599 , , IV. i. 26:
of, related to, or containing minerals
(mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal yellow mineral containing boron, chromium, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, potassium, and sodium.
* 1996 , Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 60, Pages 1-540,
As nouns the difference between mineral and iquiqueite
is that mineral is mineral while iquiqueite is (mineralogy) a trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal yellow mineral containing boron, chromium, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, potassium, and sodium.mineral
English
(wikipedia mineral)Alternative forms
* minerall (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are diamond, ruby and sapphire, emerald and other gem forms of the mineral beryl, chrysoberyl, tanzanite, tsavorite, topaz and jade.}}
- O'er whom his very madness, like some ore / Among a mineral of metals base, / Shows itself pure;
Derived terms
* rare earth mineralAdjective
(head)Derived terms
* mineral acid * mineral oil * mineral processing * mineral tar * mineral water * mineral wax * mineral weathering * mineral woolAnagrams
* * ----iquiqueite
English
Noun
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- Carlos ruizite'.As platy crystals, up to 200 ?m, in ' iquiqueite found within yellow nitrate ore samples of mainly nitratine, halite and darapskite from the Zapiga district, Tarapacá Province, Chile.
References
*Iquiqueite]in the [http://webmineral.com/data/ Mineralogy Database