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IN reply to your correspondent's question as to which of the three kingdoms “water” belongs, I beg to state that the strict scientific definition of a mineral, adopted in most mineralogies, is as follows: a mineral is any inorganic, homogeneous, natural substance.
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C., E. The Three Kingdoms of Nature. Nature 13, 386 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/013386b0
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