reguline

[ reg-yuh-lin, -lahyn ]

adjective

, Metallurgy.

1. of, relating to, or of the nature of, a regulus.

Word History and Origins

Origin of reguline¹

First recorded in 1660–70; regul(us) + -ine ¹

Example Sentences

However, at a temperature of 50° C. the above receipt gives an excellent coppering liquid, which will coat zinc with a fine reguline deposit.

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Copper may be deposited from almost any of its salts in reguline form, the sulphate and nitrate being most usually employed.

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This particularly applies to the conditions which determine whether a metallic deposit shall come down in a reguline or in a crystalline manner.

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Now here is a regular form, which demonstrates the masses to have been in the state of fusion; for, there is no other way in which that form of those reguline masses could have been induced.

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With regard again to the nature of the fire by which the fusion had been produced, he is much mistaken if he imagines that the reduction of the reguline or metallic manganese depends upon the intensity of the heat; it depends upon circumstances proper for the separation of the oxygenating principle from the calx, in like manner as the calcination of calcareous spar must depend upon circumstances proper for allowing the separation of the carbonic acid or fixed air.

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