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Aluminium
Aluminium Al`u*min"i*um ([a^]l`[-u]*m[i^]n"[i^]*[u^]m), n. [L. alumen. See Alum.] (Chem.) The metallic base of alumina. This metal is white, but with a bluish tinge, and is remarkable for its resistance to oxidation, and for its lightness, having a specific gravity of about 2.6. Atomic weight 27.08. Symbol Al.
Aluminium bronze
Aluminium bronze or gold, a pale gold-colored alloy of aluminium and copper, used for journal bearings, etc.
Aluminium bronze
Bronze Bronze, n. [F. bronze, fr. It. bronzo brown, fr. OHG. br?n, G. braun. See Brown, a.] 1. An alloy of copper and tin, to which small proportions of other metals, especially zinc, are sometimes added. It is hard and sonorous, and is used for statues, bells, cannon, etc., the proportions of the ingredients being varied to suit the particular purposes. The varieties containing the higher proportions of tin are brittle, as in bell metal and speculum metal. 2. A statue, bust, etc., cast in bronze. A print, a bronze, a flower, a root. --Prior. 3. A yellowish or reddish brown, the color of bronze; also, a pigment or powder for imitating bronze. 4. Boldness; impudence; ``brass.' Imbrowned with native bronze, lo! Henley stands. --Pope. Aluminium bronze. See under Aluminium. Bronze age, an age of the world which followed the stone age, and was characterized by the use of implements and ornaments of copper or bronze. Bronze powder, a metallic powder, used with size or in combination with painting, to give the appearance of bronze, gold, or other metal, to any surface. Phosphor bronze & Silicious or Silicium bronze are made by adding phosphorus and silicon respectively to ordinary bronze, and are characterized by great tenacity.
Ekaluminium
Ekaluminium Ek*al`u*min"i*um, n. [Skr. [=e]ka one + E. aluminium.] (Chem.) The name given to a hypothetical element, -- later discovered and called gallium. See Gallium, and cf. Ekabor.
Postliminium
Postliminium Post`li*min"i*um, Postliminy Post*lim"i*ny, n. [L. postliminium, post after + limen, liminis, a threshold.] 1. (Rom. Antiq.) The return to his own country, and his former privileges, of a person who had gone to sojourn in a foreign country, or had been banished, or taken by an enemy. --Burrill. 2. (Internat. Law) The right by virtue of which persons and things taken by an enemy in war are restored to their former state when coming again under the power of the nation to which they belonged. --Kent.

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- Minium is a genus of thalloid algae. The thalli take a crustose form. The only species currently recognised is Minium parvum. Guiry, M.D.; Guiry, G.M...
- Minium, also known as red lead or red lead oxide, is a bright orange red pigment that was widely used in the Middle Ages for the decoration of m****cripts...
- Lead(II,IV) oxide, also called red lead or minium, is the inorganic compound with the formula Pb3O4. A bright red or orange solid, it is used as pigment...
- Minium is the naturally occurring form of lead tetroxide, Pb2+2Pb4+O4 also known as red lead. Minium is a light-to-vivid red and may have brown-to-yellow...
- pigment. Solid minium A sample of minium pigment, made by roasting white lead pigment The Códice del Escorial (1272–1284) from Spain, used minium pigment for...
- important decoration of illuminated m****cripts, while the less expensive minium, made with red lead, was used for the red letters and symbols in the text...
- [dead link‍] Minium, Harry (November 2, 1996). "Area gets a shot at NHL team". The Virginian-Pilot. p. A1. Reilly & Schweihs 1999, p. 393 Minium, Harry (November...
- Theophrastus to several distinct substances. In Latin, it was sometimes known as minium, meaning also "red cinnamon", though both of these terms now refer specifically...
- pigments; most often blue azurite or lapis-lazuli with red ochre, cinnabar, or minium. They also combined lake colors made by mixing dye with powder; using woad...
- shop to Packers' long-snapper". ESPN.com. Retrieved September 1, 2016. Minium, Harry (January 8, 2016). "ODU's Rick Lovato: from sub-making in Jersey...