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A rare element of the light platinum group, found associated with platinum ores, and isolated as a hard, brittle steel-gray metal which is very infusible. Symbol Ru. Atomic weight 103.5. Specific gravity 12.26. See Platinum metals, under Platinum.
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An apparatus for sorting pulverized ores into grades, or separating them from gangue.
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A process by which ores are washed on a shovel, or in a vanner.
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The nonmetalliferous mineral or rock material which accompanies the ores in a vein, as quartz, calcite, barite, fluor spar, etc.; -- called also veinstuff.
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A local name for the igneous rocks of Derbyshire, England; -- said by some to be derived from the German todter stein, meaning dead stone, that is, stone which contains no ores.
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A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.
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To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk. See Trunk, n., 9.
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The operation of expelling one substance from another by heat, as sulphur or arsenic from ores, in a muffle.
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A wooden tub for washing ores and mineral substances in.
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A trough for washing ores.
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To impregnate with, or to subject to the action of, tellurium; -- chiefly used adjectively in the past participle; as, tellurized ores.
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To subject to scorching heat, so as to drive off volatile ingredients; to roast, as ores.
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A revolving buddle or sieve for separating, or sizing, ores.
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To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.
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Of or pertaining to tungsten; containing tungsten; as, tungstenic ores.
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A nonmetallic element of the sulphur group, and analogous to sulphur in its compounds. It is found in small quantities with sulphur and some sulphur ores, and obtained in the free state as a dark reddish powder or crystalline mass, or as a dark metallic-looking substance. It exhibits under the action of light a remarkable variation in electric conductivity, and is used in certain electric apparatus. Symbol Se. Atomic weight 78.9.
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A narrow mass of rock intersecting other rocks, and filling inclined or vertical fissures not corresponding with the stratification; a lode; a dike; -- often limited, in the language of miners, to a mineral vein or lode, that is, to a vein which contains useful minerals or ores.
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The act or process of washing ores in a buddle.
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The act, process, or result of scorifying, or reducing to a slag; hence, the separation from earthy matter by means of a slag; as, the scorification of ores.
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A process which consists in washing ores by violent agitation in water, in order to separate the lighter or earhy particles; -- called also tozing, and treloobing, in Cornwall.
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