Definitionadj. relating to or containing or resembling silica
Last update: October 20, 2015
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The geological formation of the plateau consists of thin beds of hard silicious chalk, locally called misse, which overlie a thick bed of soft white limestone, known by the name of meleke. [Please select]
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Facing Quarries--1, in Faience--_A_, of Limestone Paste--_B_, of Silicious Paste--_C_, of Felspar Paste--Manufacture, Firing--2, of Glazed Stoneware--3, of Porcelain--Applications of Facing Quarries. [Please select]
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It was built of crude brick mixed with a good deal of straw, and cased with a white silicious limestone. [Please select]
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Classification: Argillaceous, Aluminous, Carboniferous, Silicious and Basic Fireclay Goods--Fireclay Mortar (Pug)--Tests for Fireclay Goods. [Please select]
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Varnished Faiences--Enamelled Faiences--Silicious Faiences--Pipeclay Faiences--Pebble Work--Feldspathic Faiences--Composition, Processes of Manufacture and General Arrangements of Faience Potteries. [Please select]
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Among the porous substances used is kieselguhr, a silicious earth which consists chiefly of the skeletons of various species of diatoms. [Please select]
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~--Engineers commonly specify that sand for concrete shall be clean and sharp, and silicious in character. [Please select]
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He had also made many experiments in galvanism, and had found silicious earth in the skin of reeds and grass. [Please select]
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They come nearer in character to the Yellowstone geysers, their waters depositing true geyserite, or silicious concretions. [Please select]
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Common flint, sandstones, and the sand of our shores, are made of quartz, and therefore belong to the first class of Silicious or Flint Rocks. [Please select]
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But there is no mound, and the rocks of the fissure are just beginning to get a coating of the silicious geyserite deposited from the water, so that it cannot long have been spouting. [Please select]
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