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Definition of Mineral kingdom
1. Noun. All inorganic objects; contrasts with animal and plant kingdoms.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mineral Kingdom
Literary usage of Mineral kingdom
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Conversations on the Principal Subjects of Political Economy by William Elder (1882)
"2d. from the Animal and Vegetable to the mineral kingdom. From wood and peat. "
wood in houses, ships, bridges. " goose quills. ..."
2. Manual of Determinative Mineralogy with an Introduction on Blowpipe Analysis by George Jarvis Brush (1898)
"The mineral kingdom.—Natural products are commonly divided into three kingdoms
... These are definite chemical compounds occurring in the mineral kingdom. ..."
3. The Christian Examiner (1853)
"By JOACHIM FREDERIC SCHOUW, Professor of Botany in the University of Copenhagen.
And Sketches from the mineral kingdom. ..."
4. The Microscope and its revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter (1881)
"In the following list are enumerated some of the most interesting natural specimens
which the mineral kingdom affords as Microscopic ..."
5. Manual of Mineralogy and Geology by Ebenezer Emmons (1832)
"The mineral kingdom. The mineral kingdom embraces those natural productions which
are unorganized. Natural productions are obviously divisible into two ..."
6. The Polar World: A Popular Description of Man and Nature in the Arctic and by Georg Hartwig (1869)
"mineral kingdom.—Mode of Life of the Greenland Esquimaux.—'The Danes in
Greenland.—Beautiful Scenery.—Ice Caves. ..."
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