Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A native hydrous sulphate of iron and potassium, occurring in ocher-yellow rhombohedral crystals, and also in granular masses.
- noun Varieties of this mineral in which the potassium is replaced by sodium and by lead have been called
natrojarosite and plumbojarosite respectively.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) An ocher-yellow mineral occurring in minute rhombohedral crystals. It is a hydrous sulphate of iron and potash.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A
mineral withrhombohedral crystals,K Fe 33+(S O 4)2(OH )6.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Expedition leader Professor Groemer, who is based at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, explains: "We have a mineral here called jarosite - and that is exactly what we have on Mars."
BBC News - Home 2011
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Orange layers are colored by jarosite, an iron-rich sulfate mineral.
SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Janice Bishop -- Mars: Back through the Looking Glass SETI Institute 2011
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From 176 to 180 feet, samples indicated limonite-jarosite and hematite in the matrix material and it is believed that this zone could also offer gold mineralization.
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From 176 to 180 feet, samples indicated limonite-jarosite and hematite in the matrix material and it is believed that this zone could also offer gold mineralization.
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Nickel producers will benefit from a new direct solvent extraction process for recovering nickel and cobalt, and research into jarosite build up in autoclaves during high-pressure acid leaching.
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From 176 to 180 feet, samples indicated limonite-jarosite and hematite in the matrix material and it is believed that this zone could also offer gold mineralization.
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From 176 to 180 feet, samples indicated limonite-jarosite and hematite in the matrix material and it is believed that this zone could also offer gold mineralization.
Ironwood Gold Updates Drill Test Efforts at Cobalt Canyon, Nevada - Yahoo! Finance 2010
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From 176 to 180 feet, samples indicated limonite-jarosite and hematite in the matrix material and it is believed that this zone could also offer gold mineralization.
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The jarosite group minerals have received increasing attention since the discovery of jarosite on the martian surface by the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.
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The jarosite group minerals have received increasing attention since the discovery of jarosite on the martian surface by the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.
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