Mineral Waters
waters so far impregnated with mineral matter as to give them a peculiar taste or smell, and specific medicinal properties, which may exert effects on the human body different than on ordinary water. They are usually divided into four classes-carbonetted, or those containing free carbonic acid gas; chalybeate, or those impregnated with iron; saline, containing considerable quantities of neutral salts, as sulphate of magnesia, chloride of sodium, etc.; and sulphurous, or waters containing sulphuretted hydrogen. The term mineral waters is also applied to artificial aërated waters. Natural mineral waters are generally connected with recent or extinct volcanoes, and they are most common in volcanic regions. Some are thermal.
MINERAL WAX. See OZOKERITE.