mineralizedadj.
/ˈmɪn(ə)rəlʌɪzd/, /ˈmɪn(ə)rl̩ʌɪzd/, U.S. /ˈmɪn(ə)rəˌlaɪzd/ 1.
a. Of rock or (occasionally) metal: changed into a mineral or ore; containing aggregates or veins of minerals as a result of the alteration of pre-existing rock.
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the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [adjective] > combining to form
mineralized1754
mineralizing1796
1754 T. Smollett tr. Select Ess. Commerce, Agric., Mines, Fisheries 286 These experiments..plainly demonstrate the causes of the red and yellow iron ore; the first seems allied with the acid of sulphur, and the yellow with the acid of kitchin-salt; whence it results, that kitchin-salt preserved mineralized metals even in their natural state.
1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 125 Upon the top of most Tin Lodes..is that mineralized substance, which is called the Broil or Bryle of the Lode.
1793 R. Kerr tr. A. Lavoisier Elements Chem. (ed. 2) i. xvi. 226 These [forms of uranite] may be divided into three genera, the ochreous, the spathiform, and the mineralized.
1844 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 6 442/1 The silicified and other mineralized bodies.
1872 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 29 59 These nodules..are highly mineralized; for they exhibit wide shrinkage-cracks.
1899 Daily News 23 May 7/2 By cablegrams:..Lode is heavily mineralised, in so far as 3 feet, average assay value 10 dwts. per ton.
1934 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 90 229 Mineralized patches or veins existed in the roof layers of the granite or in the covering gneiss.
1966 Mineral Abstr. 17 537/2 Sphalerite occurring with galena in mineralized Cambrian limestone and dolomite.
1995 Canad. Geographic Sept. 52/1 What Chislett and Verbiski had identified was an uninterrupted swath of mineralized rock stretching nearly half a kilometre.
b. Of organic material: converted into or impregnated with mineral or inorganic material; fossilized.
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the world > the earth > minerals > [adjective] > formation of mineral
mineralized1756
mineralizing1875
1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters i. 10 A natural kind of volatile alcali,..of too volatile a nature to be found pure alone; it is always united or incorporated with mineralised vegetable or animal bodies; such as different pertrifications of those substances.
a1790 J. Hunter in Southern Lit. Messenger (1847) May 314/1 I have but one order to send you, and that is to send me everything you can get, either animal, vegetable, or mineral, and the compound of the two, either animal or vegetable mineralized.
1846 Southern & Western Lit. Messenger & Rev. Nov. 667/2 Prof. Owen supposes it to be now extinct, but that cannot have been so for a very long time, as the bones are not much mineralized.
1860 R. Hunt Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 5) I. 589 Such are the results of the processes that induce a ‘change’ in caoutchouc when sulphur and heat are employed; where metals and minerals are employed, ‘metallised’ and ‘mineralised’, ‘thionised’, and a number of other terms have been used.
1878 A. H. Green et al. Coal: Hist. & Uses i. 16 Coal is little else but mineralised vegetable matter.
1890 Nature 27 Feb. 392 The bone-corpuscles differ from the dentine-corpuscles in becoming completely embedded in the mineralized matrix.
1966 W. G. J. Putschar in S. Jarcho Human Palaeopathol. 60 In palaeopathological material we have only the mineralized portion of the affected bone available.
1995 Time 4 Dec. 67/2 All around the world..scientists have found the mineralized remains of organisms that represent the emergence of nearly every major branch in the zoological tree.
2. Containing mineral substances, esp. in solution.
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the world > the earth > minerals > [adjective] > mineral impregnation
mineral?a1425
minerous1612
mineraline1674
mineralized1785
mineralizing1890
1785 T. Jefferson Notes Virginia vi. 58 On Patowmac river..are Medicinal springs... Their powers, however, are less, the waters weakly mineralised, and scarcely warm.
1843 Penny Cycl. XXVII. 112/1 The mineralized hot springs and the unmineralized.
1893 Nation (N.Y.) 27 July 70/3 Were there not lines of weakness in the earth, along which lavas and hot mineralized solutions could penetrate.
1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 319 Many other slightly mineralised warm-waters..might be mentioned.
1906 Act 6 Edward VII c. 20 §4 (1) The expression ‘mineralized methylated spirits’ means..spirits which, in addition to being methylated..have mixed with or dissolved in them..mineral naphtha.
1915 K. Tornberg tr. E. Rasch Electr. Arc Phenomena vii. 149 The radiation from the luminous arc flame of mineralized carbons, thus, is not always sufficient to compensate for any considerable deficiency occasioned by artificial lengthening of the arc.
1967 Martindale's Extra Pharmacopoeia (ed. 25) 86/2 Mineralised methylated spirits is the only variety that may be sold by retail in Great Britain for general use.
1988 Alternatives Apr. 36/1 It..is pure and delicately mineralised and naturally like other mineral water has no calories at all.
3. Originally Mining. Of a district: containing ore. Also with modifying adverb.
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1874 J. H. Collins Princ. Metal Mining (1875) iv. 26 The country on each side is frequently much altered, ‘mineralised’ as miners say.
1895 Tablet 2 Feb. 158 It was also a highly mineralized country, and a highly ‘payable’ country.
1907 S. E. White Rawhide ii, in Arizona Nights 281 I always said they was mineralised enough to make a good prospect.
1911 Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 6/1 One would naturally be led to suppose that, in a mineralised country like South Africa, mining was a pursuit which could be very advantageously exploited.
1972 Nature 4 Feb. 238/1 There are comparatively large concentrations of heavy metals in the water of Cardigan Bay, presumably because of run-off from the heavily mineralized Cambrian Shield.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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