Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A black mineral with a metallic luster, essentially (Ag,Cu)16Sb2S11, that is an ore of silver.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An iron-black ore of silver, consisting of silver, sulphur, and antimony, with some copper and arsenic.
Wiktionary
- n. mineralogy An iron-black ore of silver, consisting of silver, sulphur, and antimony, with some copper and arsenic.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Min.) An iron-black ore of silver, consisting of silver, sulphur, and antimony, with some copper and arsenic.
Etymologies
- poly- + bas(is) + -ite1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“It also occurs combined with sulphur (as in argentite), with sulphur and antimony (as in stephanite or brittle silver ore, and in pyrargyrite or ruby silver), and with copper, sulphur, antimony, and arsenic, as in polybasite.”
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
“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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Silver
Silvery words. (Mithril doesn't count.)
lessilver, silver, ladysilver, loadsilver, silvery, silversmith, silverwork, silverware, ale-silver, quicksilver, aver-silver, besilver and 242 more...
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Minerals and Mineralogy
List of minerals, elements, group names and geochemistry terms encountered in the science of mineralogy. I've chosen to avoid capital letters in most examples, though a great many mineral names hon...
galkhaite, xanthoconite, pyrostilpnite, polybasite, pyrargyrite, djurleite, digenite, covellite, chalcocite, cerargirite, acanthite, aeschynite and 2608 more...
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