huminous
English
Etymology
humin + -ous
Adjective
huminous (comparative more huminous, superlative most huminous)
- Pertaining to humin.
- 1941, Tentative Draft of Methods for Testing Zeolites:
- The organic zeolites as here defined are made from carbonaceous, resinous and huminous materials and operate in the cation-exchange cycle employing sodium in regeneration.
- 1991, Acta geologica et geographica Universitatis Comenianae: Geologica:
- In the carbon balance there are some differences in the share or bituminous and huminous carbon, free hydrocarbon contents as well as hydrogen and oxygen indices, but ...
- 2009, Tarek A. Kassim & Damià Barceló, Environmental Consequences of War and Aftermath, →ISBN, page 288:
- On the other hand, the strength of the connection which the ion of a heavy metal establishes with its substrate will directly determine its mobility -- the ion bound by weak, adsorptive connections to some substrate will easily convert into a solution, while the huminous associated metals will be firmly gound to their substrate.
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