All geologic synonyms
ge·o·log·ic
G g adj geologic
- golden — bright, metallic, or lustrous like gold; of the color of gold; yellow: golden hair.
- silvery — resembling silver; of a lustrous grayish-white color: the silvery moon.
- iron — Chemistry. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery, etc. Symbol: Fe; atomic weight: 55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86 at 20°C. Compare cast iron, pig iron, steel, wrought iron.
- mineral — any of a class of substances occurring in nature, usually comprising inorganic substances, as quartz or feldspar, of definite chemical composition and usually of definite crystal structure, but sometimes also including rocks formed by these substances as well as certain natural products of organic origin, as asphalt or coal.
- hard — not soft; solid and firm to the touch; unyielding to pressure and impenetrable or almost impenetrable.
- leaden — inertly heavy like lead; hard to lift or move: a leaden weight; leaden feet.
- fusible — capable of being fused or melted.
- metallurgic — the technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain desired shapes or properties.
- between a rock and a hard place — having to choose between two equally unpleasant alternatives
- stannic — of or containing tin, especially in the tetravalent state.
- tinny — of or like tin.