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Zaffer :: Zaffer (n.) A pigment obtained, usually by roasting cobalt glance with sand or quartz, as a dark earthy powder. It consists of crude cobalt oxide, or of an impure cobalt arseniate. It is used in porcelain painting, and in enameling pottery, to produce a blue color, and is often confounded with smalt, from which, however, it is distinct, as it contains no potash. The name is often loosely applied to mixtures of zaffer proper with silica, or oxides of iron, manganese, etc..

Mould :: Mould (v.) Earthy material; the matter of which anything is formed; composing substance; material.

Gangue :: Gangue (n.) The mineral or earthy substance associated with metallic ore.

Terrene :: Terrene (a.) Of or pertaining to the earth; earthy; as, terrene substance..

Chalk :: Chalk (n.) A soft, earthy substance, of a white, grayish, or yellowish white color, consisting of calcium carbonate, and having the same composition as common limestone..

Cimolite :: Cimolite (n.) A soft, earthy, clayey mineral, of whitish or grayish color..

Earth :: Earth (n.) Any earthy-looking metallic oxide, as alumina, glucina, zirconia, yttria, and thoria..

Melaconite :: Melaconite (n.) An earthy black oxide of copper, arising from the decomposition of other ores..

Ashes :: Ashes (n. pl.) The earthy or mineral particles of combustible substances remaining after combustion, as of wood or coal..

Matrix :: Matrix (n.) The earthy or stony substance in which metallic ores or crystallized minerals are found; the gangue.

Causally :: Causally (n.) The lighter, earthy parts of ore, carried off washing..

Thoria :: Thoria (n.) A rare white earthy substance, consisting of the oxide of thorium; -- formerly called also thorina..

Pacos :: Pacos (n.) An earthy-looking ore, consisting of brown oxide of iron with minute particles of native silver..

Marl :: Marl (n.) A mixed earthy substance, consisting of carbonate of lime, clay, and sand, in very varivble proportions, and accordingly designated as calcareous, clayey, or sandy. See Greensand..

Bergmeal :: Bergmeal (n.) An earthy substance, resembling fine flour. It is composed of the shells of infusoria, and in Lapland and Sweden is sometimes eaten, mixed with flour or ground birch bark, in times of scarcity. This name is also given to a white powdery variety of calcite..

Horse :: Horse (n.) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse -- said of a vein -- is to divide into branches for a distance..

Dust :: Dust (n.) The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.

Bole :: Bole (n.) Any one of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually colored more or less strongly red by oxide of iron, and used to color and adulterate various substances. It was formerly used in medicine. It is composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia. See Clay, and Terra alba..

Earthy :: Earthy (a.) Consisting of, or resembling, earth; terrene; earthlike; as, earthy matter..

Greenockite :: Greenockite (n.) Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation..

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