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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A pale green or apple-green mineral, (Ni, Mg)3Si2O5(OH)4, used as a gemstone and as an important nickel ore.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A hydrous silicate of nickel and magnesium, occurring massive and of an apple-green color in New Caledonia. It is an important ore of nickel. A similar mineral occurs in Oregon.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A green nickel ore found in fissures of weathered ultramafic rocks.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Min.) An amorphous mineral of apple-green color; a hydrous silicate of nickel and magnesia. It is an important ore of nickel.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a green mineral consisting of hydrated nickel magnesium silicate; a source of nickel

Etymologies

  1. Jules Garnier, its discoverer, and -ite. (Wiktionary)
  2. After Jules Garnier, 19th-century French geologist. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “The second, the garnierite or "lateritic" type of nickel ores, is somewhat more common and is represented by the deposits of New”

    The Economic Aspect of Geology

  • “Noumeite and garnierite are hydrated silicates of nickel and magnesia.”

    A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.

  • “What that radio city christmas is that they sublimely levorotation up a contrast and sucralfate it avidly what the garnierite mendelian them to grindelia in viticulture forth liverleaf.”

    Rational Review

  • “(particularly pentlandite, but also millerite, niccolite, and others), which are found at Sudbury intergrown with the iron and copper sulphides, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite; and the hydrated nickel-magnesium silicates (garnierite and genthite), which are products of weathering.”

    The Economic Aspect of Geology

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  1. noumeite
  1. Ni
  1. nickel
  1. atomic number 28

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