This is due, supposedly, to a lack of mineral substance in the bony structure of the affected animals, and is known as rachitis--commonly called rickets.
Bones of young animals, because they do not contain proportionately as much mineral substance as do bones of adults, are more resilient and less apt to become completely fractured.
Mineral coal is fossilized vegetable matter; anthracite has had most of the volatile hydro-carbons removed by distillation in the earth; bituminous and cannel coals retain them.
This is why the abundant mineral FeS2 cannot be used as a source of iron.
An illustration of the transformation of mineral foods by plants before they can be used by animals is found in the Ca3(PO4)2 of bones.
Fluorite (CaF2) and cryolite (Al2F6 + 6 NaF) are its two principal mineral sources.
The volatile gases are thus driven off from the wood; what is left is C, and a small quantity of mineral matter which remains as ash when the coal is burned.
The power which plants have of transforming mineral matter is largely due to sunlight, the action of which in separating CO, was described.
Mineral Coal is fossilized wood or other vegetable matter.
If color is desired, mineral coloring matter is also added, but not always at this stage.
It does not discharge either mineral or carbon colors.
Some mineral acids, as H2SO4 and HCl, and some organic acids, are regarded as lifeless ferments.
Spicules, tiny needles of mineral substance found in the walls of many sponges.
What constitutes the greater part of the shell, animal or mineral matter?
Spic' ules#, tiny needles of mineral substance found in the walls of many animals, notably sponges.
Optional) Devise some method and determine the approximate per cent of mineral and of animal matter in the clamshell.
Tradition points to the fact that the whole of the Central American States were more or less mineralized, while some of them, such as Honduras and Salvador, have long been known to contain great mineral wealth.
The mineral veins of Salvador present themselves principally in the rocks of the mountain chain, or Cordillera, which extends into Honduras and Nicaragua, and forms the richest mining districts of those countries.
And now let us pass from what we are accustomed to regard as a dead mineral to a living grain of corn.
The beautiful specimens of rock crystal, calc spar, topaz, emerald, and other stones which adornmineral collections are sufficient evidence of these properties.
Then at nightfall, when a layer of mineral oil is thus spread over the Caspian, they light it, and exhibit the matchless spectacle of an ocean of fire undulating and breaking into waves under the breeze.
It was by the orders of Ivan Ogareff that the torrents of mineral oil had been thrown on the surface of the Angara!
This had been done that night, a few hours previously, and this was the reason that the raft which carried the true Courier of the Czar, Nadia, and the fugitives, floated on a current of mineral oil.
It seemed to be of a slimy consistency, as if it had been made of mineral oil.
This province is nearly a waste, peopled only by the Indians and some few missions, and if it possesses mineral treasures, they remain to be discovered.
The two rivers which were swallowed, it is said, may be heard running underneath the ground, and issue from it in the form of heated mineral springs.
We have related what the vegetable and animal kingdoms chiefly furnish towards this trade; it now remains to state the share which the mineral kingdom affords.
There are two mineral springs near Mexico, at which baths have been constructed, and near one of them the earth is so impregnated with salts, that regular salt pans are established for the supply of the capital.
It may be said, that this kingdom is as rich in mineral treasures as any of the Spanish transatlantic colonies.
Salt is obtained in great quantity, and the kingdom produces many other valuable mineral substances.
THE WORLD UNDER THE WAR 1 Bert spent two more days upon Goat Island, and finished all his provisions except the cigarettes and mineral water, before he brought himself to try the Asiatic flying-machine.
The River Plate, owing to the practical absence of the mineral traffic from its frontier, suffered far fewer depredations than fell to the lot of the gold and silver bearing countries to the north.
Rivera, however, constitutes by no means the solemineral district of Uruguay.
The seal fishery affords an important revenue, and the mineralproducts of the country are considerable.
The possibility of greater mineral fields than are at present suspected is merely a side issue in the general scheme.
With the rapid spread of the railways, however, these disadvantages will shortly become minimised, when no doubt considerably more will be heard of the mineral wealth of the country.
It is known to be Japan's plan to permanently colonize Korea and Manchuria, teeming in agricultural and mineral riches, with her surplus population.
Well, it was extremely useful, for it rescued four stalwart native servants, laden with tiffin basket and a dozen bottles of mineral water, from toiling up the hills on foot.
The Mikado's territory has coal, iron and copper, it is true; but in no instance is the mineral present to an extent making it a national asset of importance.
Now, the chemist determines mineral substance by burning the food and analyzing the residue.
Recent experiments at Rhode Island have attempted to show the relative value of the mineral constituents of meat by adding bone ash to vegetable proteids, as linseed and gluten meal.
Fresh bone, cut by bone-cutters, is an excellent source of the meat and mineral matter needed by growing chicks.
Practically, we do not care whether the value of animal meal be due to protein, mineral salts or both.
The results clearly indicate that mineral matter of animal origin greatly improves the value of the vegetable diet, but that the latter is still sadly deficient.
Of course the burning process used in preparing the bone ash may have destroyed some of the valuable qualities of the mineral salts.
The other chief source ofmineral matter is meat preparations with or without ground bone.
At present the feeding ofmineral substance, like the feeding of protein, can best be learned by experimenting directly with the foods rather than by attempting to go by their chemical composition.
Nothing more can be advised in this regard than to feed a ration containing plenty of mineral matter and to discard hens that lay noticeably weak shelled or irregularly shaped eggs.
In practice it is found that green feed supplies something which grain lacks, presumably mineral salts.
The last and least understood of the groups of food substances is mineral substance or ash.
Mineral waters chiefly chalybeate and sulphurous, are abundant, the most important springs being those of Alhama, which have a temperature of 112 deg.
Chemically, it is thus indentical with the cubic mineral diamond, but between the two there are very wide differences in physical characters.
Earlier names, still in common use, are plumbago and black-lead, but since the mineral contains no lead these names are singularly inappropriate.
Goslar is believed to have been founded by Henry the Fowler about 920, and when in the time of Otto the Great the mineral treasures in the neighbourhood were discovered it increased rapidly in prosperity.
The latter structure is very well seen in the quartz, which is a brittle mineral under stress.
Other localities which have yielded the mineralin large amount are the Alibert mine in Irkutsk, Siberia and the Borrowdale mine in Cumberland.
The amount of water in the rock increases and part of the alkalis is carried away in solution; they form valuable sources of mineral food to plants.
Certain mineral waters and baths (such as those of Vichy, Royat, Contrexeville, &c.
The ascent of the sap from roots to leaves brings water with mineral salts dissolved in it.
In spring the rains will leach out their mineral substance and add it to the soil.
At last the walls of the old cell harden and darken with mineral deposits.
The next day seemed to cap the climax, for that morning there came a crate of dishes, two boxes of mineral water of the most expensive kind, and a folding baby carriage.
Examination of the mineralspecimens contained in the boxes marked as under.
Crumbling outside, the lower strata pass from the cellular to the compact, and are often metalliferous when in contact with the quartz: at these Salbandes the richest mineral deposits are always found.
A papyrus in the Turin Museum contains a plan of the mineral region spoken of in two stel, those of Radesiyyah and Kuban, describing the supply of drinking-water introduced into the desert between Kuban and the Red Sea.
Examination of the mineral specimens contained in a box sent from Egypt.
If this be the case we may hope to find the mineral generally diffused throughout these immense formations; of course, in some places the yield will be richer and in others poorer.
They are thinly scattered over the seaward slope of the left jaw, where the stone nowhere shows a trace of the mineral in situ.
There was a thin layer of greenish blue turquoise mineral on one surface, and minute seams of a similar substance throughout the specimen.
They floated around for centuries perhaps, and were thoroughly impregnated with themineral water, doubtless hot water.
We found later he was a German chemist looking for mineral deposits in the Canyon.
Mineral now taxed 1 cent a gallon to pay 16 cents.
Oil--Refineries of bothmineral and vegetable oils.
In this phase of psychometry, all that is needed is a piece of the coal, mineral or metal which has come from the mine.
Another phase of psychometry is that in which the psychometer is able to sense the conditions existing underground, by means of a piece of mineral or metal which originally was located there.
As they passed me, still waving and shouting, they screwed down to twenty miles; but on she went into the mineral train, smashing the engine and telescoping the carriages.
About three in the afternoon, the Midland Express, twenty minutes overdue, a mineraltrain came along.
Next, immigrants from Germany went to the southwestern counties, about Mineral Point, and northward into the region about Lake Winnebago and the Fox River.
We first hear of copper in the vicinity, in 1730, when an Indian brought a nugget to the La Pointe post; but the whereabouts of the mine was concealed by the savages, because of their superstitions relative to mineral deposits.
In those days, Galena, Mineral Point, and other lead mining towns were of much more importance than Chicago or Milwaukee, and their citizens entertained high hopes of the future.
Why, among all the men he knew, he must go skulking about, lapping up cold mineral water and cocking one ear to the sounds of human revelry within the Tavern.
Before he spoke he emptied the glass again and rang for moremineral water.
If you don't care for any tea, there is mineral water and a decanter over there.
When it was served he drained the glass, refilled it, and turned in the rest of the mineral water.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mineral" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: mineral; ore; petrified; sulfurous; unorganized
