metalline

[ met-l-in, -ahyn ]

adjective

1. metallic.
2. containing one or more metals or metallic salts.

metalline

/ ˈmɛtəˌlaɪn /

adjective

1. of, resembling, or relating to metals
2. containing metals or metal ions

Word History and Origins

Origin of metalline¹

1425–75; late Middle English metalline < Medieval Latin metallīnus of metal. See metal, -ine ¹

Example Sentences

The life of metals is a secret fatness; of salts, the spirit of aqua fortis; of pearls, their splendour; of marcasites and antimony, a tingeing metalline spirit; of arsenics, a mineral and coagulated poison.

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This hinders the metalline particles from adhering perfectly, and makes mistakes in the trials.

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The use of the blowpipe has been inferred from metalline remains discovered in sepulchral tumuli of the Mississippi valley.

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I have sometimes observ'd, that the Colours which arise on polish'd Steel by heating it, or on Bell-metal, and some other metalline Substances, when melted and pour'd on the Ground, where they may cool in the open Air, have, like the Colours of Water-bubbles, been a little changed by viewing them at divers Obliquities, and particularly that a deep blue, or violet, when view'd very obliquely, hath been changed to a deep red.

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Sublimate, distill'd from Copper and Silver, which both did wholly loose their Metalline forms, and were melted into brittle lumps, with colours quite differing from their own; both apt to imbibe the moisture of the Air, &c.

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