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Mineral kingdom   /mˈɪnərəl kˈɪŋdəm/   Listen
Mineral kingdom

noun
1.
All inorganic objects; contrasts with animal and plant kingdoms.





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"Mineral kingdom" Quotes from Famous Books



... Roman compiler, Pliny. It remained, however, throughout antiquity as the most important work on its subject, and it entitles Theophrastus to be called the "father of botany." Theophrastus deals also with the mineral kingdom after much the same fashion, and here again his work is the most notable that was ...
— A History of Science, Volume 1(of 5) • Henry Smith Williams
... purposes of cookery; but peat, especially amongst rural populations, has, in all ages, been regarded as an excellent fuel. It is one of the most important productions of an alluvial soil, and belongs to the vegetable rather than the mineral kingdom. It may be described as composed of wet, spongy black earth, held together by decayed vegetables. Formerly it covered extensive tracts in England, but has greatly disappeared before the genius of agricultural improvement. Charcoal ...
— The Book of Household Management • Mrs. Isabella Beeton
... abundant in the mineral kingdom. Calcium metasilicate, CaSiO3, occurs in nature as monoclinic crystals known as tabular spar or wollastonite; it may be prepared artificially from solutions of calcium chloride and sodium silicate. H. Le ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 - "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" • Various


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