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单词 mineralizer
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mineralizern.

Brit. /ˈmɪn(ə)rəlʌɪzə/, /ˈmɪn(ə)rl̩ʌɪzə/, U.S. /ˈmɪn(ə)rəˌlaɪzər/
Forms: see mineralize v. and -er suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mineralize v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < mineralize v. + -er suffix1. Compare Italian mineralizzatore (a1799 denoting a chemical or physical agent that promotes mineralization).
1.
a. A substance that combines with a metal to form an ore or other mineral. Now historical and rare.
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the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [noun] > substance forming ore
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1795 W. Nicholson Dict. Chem. I. 503 The commonest mineralizers are sulphur, arsenic, and fixed air.
1807 A. Aikin & C. R. Aikin Dict. Chem. & Mineral. II. 105/1 Mineralizer is any substance found in natural combination with a metal.
1854 J. D. Whitney Metallic Wealth U.S. ii. 81 Silver, tin, copper, lead, zinc, and iron are obtained almost exclusively in the form of ores, that is, in combination with a mineralizer.
1927 Science 26 Aug. 193/1 Hill discusses the rôle of this acid as a ‘mineralizer’ in ore deposits.
b. Geology. A volatile substance dissolved in magma which controls or promotes the formation of minerals by altering the properties of the magma, but which is not necessarily present in the final mineral. Also more widely: a substance which promotes the artificial synthesis of an inorganic substance in an industrial process.
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the world > the earth > minerals > [noun] > generation or formation of mineral > agent promoting
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1895 Science 18 Jan. 62/1 The great variability of circumstances under which dikes cooled, as heated or cold walls, pressure, mineralizers, etc.
1909 A. Harker Nat. Hist. Igneous Rocks xii. 290 Mineralisers are, before all, powerful fluxes. One of their most important offices is that of reducing the viscosity of a magma.
1921 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 29 205 The presence of mineralizers has lowered the temperature of freezing below the inversion range of these minerals.
1943 R. D. George Minerals & Rocks xx. 434 When a rock is poured out of a volcano the mineralizers have a chance to escape before they have done their work.
1958 J. H. de Boer in D. H. Everett & F. S. Stone Struct. & Properties Porous Materials 290 We had a mixture of alumina and silica—I don't remember if it was in the right proportion—but heating at a relatively low temperature..mullite was already formed with lithium as a mineralizer.
1974 L. N. Kogarko in H. Spenser Alkaline Rocks vi. iv. 480/2 Mineralizers may not enter into the composition of minerals but exert catalytic action on the process of their growth.
1983 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 310 127 In cement making, the term mineralizer is used to describe substances that facilitate the sintering reactions that take place in the rotary kiln.
2. A mineral substance which is dissolved in water to form a mineral water. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > [noun] > mineral impregnating water
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1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 2 358 The principal mineralisers of this water are the sulphats of iron and alumin.
3. Ecology. An agent which promotes the decomposition of complex organic compounds into inorganic substances.
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1974 Jrnl. Ecol. 62 805 The composition of the initial microbial populations will have been conditioned by environmental and biotic factors over a considerable period before sampling, but no information concerning this, and more especially the balance between nitrogen-mineralizers and -immobilizers, is available.
1987 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 321 436 A diverse spectrum of cellulolytic fungi and bacteria are the major mineralizers in soil and aquatic ecosystems.
1994 Environment Internat. 20 307 UV light is the most important mineraliser of DOM [= dissolved organic matter].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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