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Aethogen
noun · 78% connection
A compound of nitrogen and boro/, which, when heated before the blowpipe, gives a brilliant phosphorescent; boric nitride.
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Amygdaloid
noun · 78% connection
A variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals…
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Anamorphism
noun · 78% connection
metamorphism that occurs deep under the earth's surface; changes simple minerals into complex minerals
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Bead
noun · 78% connection
A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as…
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Black-jack
noun · 78% connection
A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; -- called also false galena. See Blende.
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Blende
noun · 78% connection
A mineral, called also sphalerite, and by miners mock lead, false galena, and black-jack. It is a zinc sulphide, but often contains so…
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Cipher
noun · 78% connection
A private alphabet, system of characters, or other mode of writing, contrived for the safe transmission of secrets; also, a writing in…
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Com-
unknown · 78% connection
A prefix from the Latin preposition cum, signifying with, together, in conjunction, very, etc. It is used in the form com- before b, m…
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Cryptography
noun · 78% connection
The act or art of writing in secret characters; also, secret characters, or cipher.
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Decipher
verb · 78% connection
To translate from secret characters or ciphers into intelligible terms; as, to decipher a letter written in secret characters.
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Degraded
adjective · 78% connection
Having the typical characters or organs in a partially developed condition, or lacking certain parts.
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Diaspore
noun · 78% connection
A hydrate of alumina, often occurring in white lamellar masses with brilliant pearly luster; -- so named on account of its decrepitati…
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Galenical
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or containing, galena.
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Galenite
noun · 78% connection
Galena; lead ore.
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Heat of condensation
noun · 78% connection
heat liberated by a unit mass of gas at its boiling point as it condenses into a liquid; "the heat of condensation is equal to the hea…
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Intumesce
verb · 78% connection
To enlarge or expand with heat; to swell; specifically, to swell up or bubble up under the action of heat, as before the blowpipe.
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Lead
noun · 78% connection
One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and…
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Metamorphic
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, produced by, or exhibiting, certain changes which minerals or rocks may have undergone since their original deposition;…
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