Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A variety of hessite, or silver telluride, containing about 20 percent. of gold.

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

  • noun (Min.) A telluride of silver and gold, related to hessite.

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  • noun mineralogy A soft, steel-gray isometric telluride mineral generally deposited by hydrothermal activity and usually associated with rare tellurium and gold minerals.

Etymologies

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Petz +‎ -ite, after chemist W. Petz.

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Examples

  • A small part of the world's supply is obtained from the gold-silver tellurides -- calaverite, sylvanite, krennerite, and petzite.

    The Economic Aspect of Geology 1915

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