Definition of "nonmineral" [nonmineral]

• Not mineral. (adjective)
• Any substance that is not a mineral. (noun)

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• "If, for example, it were desired to divide balls in the stated illustration according to material, an immediate division of balls into aluminum, zinc, glass, ivory, rubber, would be less useful than to divide into mineral materials and nonmineral materials as follows:"
• "In an arrangement printed in idea-order, though relegating the genera mineral, nonmetallic, metallic, nonmineral, vegetable, animal, to the mind unaided by printed words, the different species of the same genus may be kept together except that species for which no title has been provided must go back to the subclass under which the named species are indented."
• "Midwest Oil Company [398] it was ruled that the President had, by dint of repeated assertion of it from an early date, acquired the right to withdraw, via the Land Department, public lands, both mineral and nonmineral, from private acquisition, Congress having never repudiated the practice."