mineralizer (mineralizer)

A substance or agent that mineralizes; a substance that combines with a metal to form an ore. The principal mineralizer is sulphur, and combinations of the metals with this substance form the most common ores, especially at some depth below the surface. Near the surface the sulphureted ores are usually found to have been changed to oxids and carbonates. Some metals (as tin) are almost exclusively mineralized by oxygen; others (as iron) are extensively mineralized by both oxygen and sul phur. Arsenic, antimony, and chlorin are other important mineralizers. Some metals (as silver) exist in combinations containing sulphur, arsenic, and antimony, all combined with the metal to form one mineral species. Also spelled mineraliser. Silver, tin, copper, lead, zinc, and iron are obtained almost exclusively in the form of ores-that is, in combination with a mineralizer , of which the most common one is sulphur. J. D. Whitney, Metallic Wealth of the United States, p. 81. mineralogic (min"e-ra-loj'ik), a. [= F. minéra logique = Sp. mineralógico = Pg. mineralogico; as mineralogy + -ic.] Same as mineralogical. mineralogical (min e-ra-loj'i-kal), a. [ 3774 mineralogically (min"e-ra-loj'i-kal-i), adv. According to the principles of, or with reference to, mineralogy. mineralogist (min-e-ral'ō-jist), n. [= F. mi néralogiste = Sp. Pg. It. mineralogist a; as min eralog-y + -ist.] 1. One who is versed in the science of minerals, or one who treats or discourses of the properties of mineral bodies. The exactest mineralogists have rejected it. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., ii. 1. 2. In conch., a conchologist or carrier-shell; any member of the family Xenophorida (or Phorida ). See cut under carrier - shell. mineralogize (min-e-ral'ō-jiz), v. i.; pret. and pp. mineralogized, ppr. mineralogizing. [ He was botanizing or mineralogizing with O'Toole's chaplain. Mi Edge worth, Ennui, xi. IMG:content-0665.png:[blocks in formation] Sir A. Gorge, tr. of Lucan. ( Nares .) [Obsolete or prov. Eng. in all uses.] ming1t, n. [Also minge ; minge Greene, Tri tamer on of Love (1587).