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acidific, a. Min. (æsɪˈdɪfɪk) [f. L. acid-um acid + -fic-us making: see -fic.] Applied by Dana to the oxygen, sulphur, selenium, or tellurium, in a mineral, which is an oxygen, sulphur, selenium, or tellurium salt of any basic element.1880 Dana Mineral. Introd. 15 Ternary compounds (called also salt...
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acidic
acidic, a. Min. (əˈsɪdɪk) [f. acid + -ic.] 1. Applied by Dana to that element in a ternary compound mineral, which forms an oxygen, sulphur, or other salt, with a basic element; e.g. the silicon in silicate of lime. See quotation under acidific.1880 Dana Mineral. Introd. 16 In some classes of compou...
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-fic, suffix repr. L. -ficus ‘-making, -doing’ (f. weakened root of facĕre to make, do), forming adjs. (1) from ns., with the sense ‘making, causing, producing’, as in honōrificus, pācificus, or ‘performing’, as sacrificus; (2) from adjs., with the sense ‘performing actions of a certain kind’, as ma...
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