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- Ferruginous - a. - Partaking of iron; containing particles of iron.
- Ferruginous - a. - Resembling iron rust in appearance or color; brownish red, or yellowish red.
- Marmatite - n. - A ferruginous variety of shalerite or zinc blende, nearly black in color.
- Cascalho - n. - A deposit of pebbles, gravel, and ferruginous sand, in which the Brazilian diamond is usually found.
- Beauxite - n. - A ferruginous hydrate of alumina. It is largely used in the preparation of aluminium and alumina, and for the lining of furnaces which are exposed to intense heat.
- Sinopite - n. - A brickred ferruginous clay used by the ancients for red paint.
- Gossan - n. - Decomposed rock, usually reddish or ferruginous (owing to oxidized pyrites), forming the upper part of a metallic vein.
- Ochre - n. - A impure earthy ore of iron or a ferruginous clay, usually red (hematite) or yellow (limonite), -- used as a pigment in making paints, etc. The name is also applied to clays of other colors.
- Nigrine - n. - A ferruginous variety of rutile.