Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A native sulphid of arsenic and silver, occurring in rhombohedral and scalenohedral crystals and also massive. It has a beautiful cochineal-red color, and is hence called
ruby silver , or light-red silver ore; the latter name is given to distinguish it from the other form of ruby silver, pyrargyrite, which is dark-red or neatly black, and is calleddark-red silver ore . Magnificent specimens of proustite are obtained from the mines of Chanarcillo in Chili.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Min.) A sulphide of arsenic and silver of a beautiful cochineal-red color, occurring in rhombohedral crystals, and also massive; ruby silver.
Etymologies
- Named after French chemist Joseph L. Proust (1754-1826) in 1832. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“There are various other silver minerals including: [[cerargirite]] (AgCl), [[proustite]] (3Ag2S. Ag2S.), [[pirargirite]] (3Ag2S. Sb2S3),”
“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
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VanishedOne's Words
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