Geologically analyzed, the soil consists of a silicious or argillaceous loam, as sand or clay forms the predominating constituent.
He was trying to estimate the effect of silicious matter upon the mucous membrane of a cow, when he saw Dan, sombrero in hand, bowing low before him.
The silicious fragments in that confounded earth have lacerated terribly the mucous membranes of these three unfortunate young men.
Upland marle is sometimes found of silicious texture, in which case it is good for stiff soils, as well as for others.
Of manures which may be termed fossils we will mention the various kinds of calcareous substances, the stony matter called pyrites, coal, salt, peaty substances, silicious and aluminous earths.
Its effect on clays is to destroy the adhesive quality of the soil, as the earth burned becomes rather of a silicious texture; and at the same time the surface is much enriched by the operation.
Limestone, (carbonate of lime,) has always more or less aluminous or silicious earth in its composition.
Even the denser silicious stones are penetrable by fluids and the coloring matter they contain, to such an extent that agates and other forms of silex may be artificially stained through their substance.
Organic constituents, such as comminuted shells, and silicious and calcareous exuviae of infusorial animals and plants, are sometimes found mingled in considerable quantities with mineral sands.
Impressions of plants and some silicious wood are likewise to be found in it.
Hemaetite, a silicious oxide of iron; quartz veins in slate; silicious rock; chalcedony; sandy clay.
Ditto ditto ditto 44 Silicious rock, appearing a knob, from a slate formation 45 Limestone (fibrous).
The death of these bodies in the South Arctic Ocean is producing a submarine deposit, consisting entirely of the silicious particles of which the skeletons of these vegetables are composed.
The silicious sand remains undissolved, and betrays itself by its insolubility in acids, and its easy fusibility into a transparant glass, with soda, before the blow-pipe.
The purest springs are those which occur in primitive rocks, or beds of gravel, or filter through sand or silicious strata.
There are, however, many silicious substances occurring abundantly in nature which can thus be used.
It is evident that this will form a pozzuolanic cement if a suitable silicious material such as trass is added to the cement.
They are usually made from a silicious limestone containing magnesia, and are comparatively lightly burned.
Page 151] The only interesting fact connected with fluorine, is the remarkable property of attacking glass and other silicious bodies, belonging to its combination with hydrogen gas, called hydrofluoric acid.
Now it is known that bamboo, which is of a highly silicious nature, has the property of depositing in its joints a peculiar form of silica, called tabasheer.
All around the sides are large masses of the silicious crust that have fallen from the rim.
On the west side of the Fire-Hole, and along the little branch that flows into it from the west, are numbers of springs of all grades, and the broad bottom is covered with a snow-white silicious crust.
A more typical limestone was used for the arches and for the uprights and lintels of doors and windows, this material being susceptible of a better dressed surface than was possible with the silicious rock.
The rock used in the building was brought from the mountain quarries near by, and is a very hard, compact, dark-colored silicious limestone, locally called fucoid rock from its content of fossilized marine plants known as fucoids.
It was a matter of chance; I was looking for silicious formations, and animal matter appeared instead.
Below was a stratum of compact red sandstone, changing a little above the river into a very hard silicious limestone.
The surrounding rocks are either volcanic products, or highly altered by volcanic action, consisting of quartz and reddish-colored silicious masses.
On the left bank, the ridge is composed entirely of silicious pudding-stone, the pebbles in the numerous strata increasing in size from the top to the bottom, where they are as large as a man's head.
The entire external bodily form is much more pliable and protean in Calcareous Sponges than in the silicious sponges, which are characterized by possessing silicious spicula, forming a beautiful skeleton.
In others the whole skeleton consists of only calcareous or silicious spicula which are frequently interwoven into an extremely beautiful lattice-work, as in the celebrated Venus' Flower Basket (Euplectella).
The terra cotta of the cylinders and tablets is sometimes unglazed; sometimes the natural surface has been covered with a "vitreous silicious glaze or white coating.
The cliffs a little above Koyunjik are composed of a "hard sandstone," and a part of the moat of the town is carried through "compact silicious conglomerate.
You mentioned Silicious and Argillaceous Earths: is not, then, the earthy covering of our globe of one common character?
An aberrant flagellate bearing a single flagellum and a silicious skeleton resembling those of the Radiolaria.
The chitin of the shell is covered with silicious particles of diverse size.
The skeleton consists of two rings of different diameter parallel with one another and connected by silicious bars.
Soluble silicates are mentioned here, in order that a more perfect understanding of the nature of silicious compounds may be obtained, by those who do not possess a scientific knowledge of chemistry.
The effect of the efflorescence of the carbonates on the surface of a silicious painting may be seen in the famous picture of the meeting of Wellington and Blucher, in the House of Lords, painted by the late Mr. Maclise, R.
A torrent of rain flowing down the side of a building carries with it the silicious dust, or sand, or matter which the wind has deposited there, and acts upon a scale infinitely more minute, but according to the same law.
These silicious bodies belong partly to the lowly vegetable organisms which are called Diatomaceae, and partly to the minute, and extremely simple, animals, termed Radiolaria.
It probably would prove, if true, that the figure was not a statue, for pieces of flint are not found in such material, unless it be a petrifaction, in which case siliciousearth would account for it.
Silicious earth goes largely to form flint quartz and the various kinds of sandstone carbonate of lime, of limestone, and so of the other materials mentioned forming their peculiar kinds of stone.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "silicious" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
