Mineral vs Titanian - What's the difference?
mineral | titanian |
(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
(label) Of the Titans
*1674 , Milton, Paradise Lost
*:As whom the fables name of monstrous size, / Titanian or earth-born, that warred on Jove,
(label) Of Titan, the largest moon of Saturn.
*1974 , McDonough & Brice, "The Saturnian 'Gas-Doughnut' Hypothesis", in A. Woszczyk, ed., Exploration of the Planetary System , p 484
*:if Trafton's (1972) detection of Titanian H2 is correct, ...
* 2006 , Kevin W. Plaxco, Michael Gross, Astrobiology: A Brief Introduction , Johns Hopkins University Press, p. 238,
*:The Titanian atmosphere consists predominantly of nitrogen gas, with only a few percent methane, the simplest organic molecule.
Of the faerie queen Titania
*2002 , Lewis, Anthony Burgess: A Biography , p. 387
*:the yin and the yang, or the Oberonic and the Titanian
(label) Of Titania, the largest moon of Uranus.
*1985 , Piers Anthony, Bio of a Space Tyrant, vol. 3: Politician
*:an isolated colony of Uranus' moon Titania, one of the diminishing vestiges of the Titanian Empire
As a noun mineral
is mineral.As an adjective titanian is
(mineralogy) describing minerals containing tetravalent titanium.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;