Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mineral of a silver-white color and metallic luster, occurring in crystals, and also massive and granular.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A mineral consisting of antimony and silver.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy An orthorhombic-pyramidal
mineral containingantimony andsilver .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"ruby silver," stephanite or "black silver," and polybasite; the silver-arsenic sulphides, proustite or "light ruby silver" and pearcite; and the silver antimonide, dyscrasite.
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