mineralogical
- adjective
- /ˌmɪnəˈrælədʒɪkəl/
- Specialized
- The professor presented a detailed mineralogical analysis of the rocks found in the region.
Examples
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The mineralogical composition of the soil is crucial for understanding its agricultural potential.
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Students in the geology class learned about mineralogical properties during their lab experiments.
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Thus one could, with the help of a simple mineralogical map, trace an industrial map of Britain.
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Our aim was to identify their mineralogical components and associate them with the physical properties of the composite building stones.
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The mineralogical and geological composition of the Spolic anthropogenic soil
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So if we invoke some pressure or temperature-dependent mineralogical process, it appears to form something that's stable only within a limited range.
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Furthermore, burial facilitates chemical and mineralogical transformations that contribute to C stabilization.
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The distribution of these discrete melting events can be mapped precisely by studying the mineralogical, geochemical, and physical properties of the ice-rafted component of sediments.
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He also lost all his "anatomical instruments," his "mineralogical apparatus," and even 130 copper plates for engravings, including the large plate of the mammoth skeleton.
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For remote sensing, new types of laser systems will enable the detection of trace atmospheric components by molecular absorption, mineralogical identification, and elemental analysis using laser ablation.
Academic text (2004)
Synonyms
Something that is made from rock or other natural substances that are not living
Surface Forms
Morphology
mineralogical = mineralogy (semi-transparent) = mineral + logy + ical
The adjective is formed regularly from the technical noun 'mineralogy', but the specialized scientific sense may not be fully obvious to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Mineralogical comes from mineral, a word for a hard natural thing you find in the ground and from mine, the place where people take such things out, plus the ending -logical, which means 'study of'. So, mineralogical means about minerals or the study of them.