Meaning of MICROCOSMIC
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| Definition: | | [adj] relating to or characteristic of a microcosm; "the microcosmic world of business" |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | \Mi`cro*cos"mic\, Microcosmical \Mi`cro*cos"mic*al\,
a. [Cf. F. microcosmique.]
Of or pertaining to the microcosm.
{Microcosmic salt} (Chem.), a white crystalline substance
obtained by mixing solutions of sodium phosphate and
ammonium phosphate, and also called
{hydric-sodic-ammonic-phosphate}. It is a powerful flux,
and is used as a substitute for borax as a blowpipe
reagent in testing for the metallic oxides. Originally
obtained by the alchemists from human urine, and called
{sal microcosmicum}.
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| Related Terms: | | atomic, corpuscular, embryonic, evanescent, germinal, granular, impalpable, imperceptible, imponderable, inappreciable, indiscernible, infinitesimal, intangible, invisible, microscopic, molecular, subatomic, tenuous, thin, ultramicroscopic, unseeable |
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