Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A salt of a sulpho-acid. Also sulphur-salt, sulphosel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A salt of a sulphacid.
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- adjective Alternative spelling of
sulfosalt .
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Examples
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Previous Geo-Chemical data had shown the area systems, quartz vein stockworks and breccias bearing gold, silver, argentite and pyrite with trace amounts of galena as well as chalcopytrite, sphalerite and sulphosalt minerals.
unknown title 2011
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This drilling has outlined a relatively narrow, high-grade zone of mineralization consisting of sulphosalt, wire-silver and locally native silver-bearing veins and vein stockworks containing variable galena and sphalerite content, and that appears continuous from the historical Lucky Queen mine workings.
unknown title 2011
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