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Alabaster
noun · 78% connection
A hard, compact variety of carbonate of lime, somewhat translucent, or of banded shades of color; stalagmite. The name is used in this…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cement, color, portland, stone, england.
Albolith
noun · 78% connection
A kind of plastic cement, or artificial stone, consisting chiefly of magnesia and silica; -- called also albolite.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cement, color, portland, stone, england.
Allomorph
noun · 78% connection
Any one of two or more distinct crystalline forms of the same substance; or the substance having such forms; -- as, carbonate of lime…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cement, color, portland, stone, england.
Aragonite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral identical in composition with calcite or carbonate of lime, but differing from it in its crystalline form and some of its ph…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cement, color, portland, stone, england.
Argil
noun · 78% connection
Clay, or potter's earth; sometimes pure clay, or alumina. See Clay.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cement, color, portland, stone, england.
Asphaltum
noun · 78% connection
A composition of bitumen, pitch, lime, and gravel, used for forming pavements, and as a water-proof cement for bridges, roofs, etc.; a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cement, color, portland, stone, england.
Badigeon
noun · 78% connection
A cement or paste (as of plaster and freestone, or of sawdust and glue or lime) used by sculptors, builders, and workers in wood or st…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cement, color, portland, stone, england.
Basanite
noun · 78% connection
Lydian stone, or black jasper, a variety of siliceous or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color. It is employed to test the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cement, color, portland, stone, england.
Bicarbonate
noun · 78% connection
A carbonate in which but half the hydrogen of the acid is replaced by a positive element or radical, thus making the proportion of the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cement, color, portland, stone, england.
Bole
noun · 78% connection
Any one of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually colored more or less strongly red by oxide of iron, and used to color and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cement, color, portland, stone, england.
Bond
noun · 78% connection
A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a f…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cement, color, portland, stone, england.
Calcareous
adjective · 78% connection
Partaking of the nature of calcite or calcium carbonate; consisting of, or containing, calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cement, color, portland, stone, england.
Calcite
noun · 78% connection
Calcium carbonate, or carbonate of lime. It is rhombohedral in its crystallization, and thus distinguished from aragonite. It includes…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cement, color, portland, stone, england.
Clayey
adjective · 78% connection
Consisting of clay; abounding with clay; partaking of clay; like clay.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cement, color, portland, stone, england.
Concrete
noun · 78% connection
A mixture of gravel, pebbles, or broken stone with cement or with tar, etc., used for sidewalks, roadways, foundations, etc., and esp.…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cement, color, portland, stone, england.
Crucible
noun · 78% connection
A vessel or melting pot, composed of some very refractory substance, as clay, graphite, platinum, and used for melting and calcining s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cement, color, portland, stone, england.
Drummond light
unknown · 78% connection
A very intense light, produced by turning two streams of gas, one oxygen and the other hydrogen, or coal gas, in a state of ignition,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cement, color, portland, stone, england.
Excise
noun · 78% connection
In inland duty or impost operating as an indirect tax on the consumer, levied upon certain specified articles, as, tobacco, ale, spiri…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cement, color, portland, stone, england.
