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  • noun Plural form of arsenide.

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Examples

  • Also, the arsenides are pretty important in their diet.

    Doctor’s Orders Diane Duane 2000

  • There are cases when gold is contained in ores in what is known as a perfectly "free" form -- that is, there is an absence of all sulphides, arsenides, etc. -- when it is not practicable to extract it either with the ordinary forms of quicksilver amalgamation of or any process of chlorination, without first roasting.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887 Various

  • The fissures were mineralized with copper sulphides and arsenides, iron sulphides, and locally with zinc sulphide and manganese carbonate, -- all in a matrix of quartz.

    The Economic Aspect of Geology 1915

  • Native silver and various silver sulphides, arsenides, and antimonides are associated with minerals of cobalt, nickel, bismuth, lead, and zinc, in a gangue of calcite and some quartz.

    The Economic Aspect of Geology 1915

  • The silver ores of the Cobalt district of Ontario (pp. 234-235), containing nickel and cobalt arsenides, produce considerable arsenic.

    The Economic Aspect of Geology 1915

  • The principal ore minerals are the nickel sulphides and arsenides

    The Economic Aspect of Geology 1915

  • As regards the cobalt nickel arsenides and silver deposits of

    Our Northern Heritage 1906

  • More recently the auriferous-arsenic ores of Temagami were made known, and lastly a discovery has been made of the series of cobalt nickel arsenides and silver, which are unique, so far as known, on this continent, and are paralleled by deposits only in Saxony and adjacent regions of continental Europe.

    Our Northern Heritage 1906

  • Its chief ores are smaltite and cobaltite, which are arsenides of cobalt, with more or less iron, nickel, and copper.

    A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886

  • Kupfernickel and chloanthite are arsenides of nickel with, generally, more or less iron and cobalt.

    A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886

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