Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A sulphid of osmium and ruthenium, a rare mineral, occurring in regular octahedrons, of an iron-black color and bright metallic luster, found in the platinum-washings of Borneo. It occurs also in Oregon.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Min.) A rare sulphide of osmium and ruthenium found with platinum in Borneo and Oregon.

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  • noun mineralogy A rare sulphide of osmium and ruthenium found with platinum in Borneo and Oregon, with the chemical formula RuS2.

Etymologies

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After Laura R. Joy who was a wife of American chemist C. A. Joy. Named in 1866.

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  • The village was given the title ‘Sampoorna nethradhana gramam’ by the Malayalam laurite M.T. Vasudevan Nair.

    This Kerala village has a unique eye 2008

  • UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If I am a student at a college that is not very affluent college, it might have a small library or small faculty, now, all of a sudden, if you will, I can be in the lecture hall of a distinguished scientist or distinguished writer or noble laurite whose material is available from a pod cast from his or her university.

    CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2006 2006

  • UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If I am a student at a college that is not very affluent college, it might have a small library or small faculty, now, all of a sudden, if you will, I can be in the lecture hall of a distinguished scientist or distinguished writer or noble laurite whose material is available from a pod cast from his or her university.

    CNN Transcript Sep 24, 2006 2006

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