Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A yellow or yellowish-green mineral, essentially WO3, often occurring with tungsten ores.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Native oxid of tungsten, occurring in pulverulent form, of a bright-yellow color, usually in connection with wolfram, the tungstate of iron and manganese. Also called
tungstic ocher .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) The oxide of tungsten, a yellow mineral occurring in a pulverulent form. It is often associated with wolfram.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy An
orthorhombic hydrous tungsten oxide mineral formed by theweathering of other tungsten-containing minerals.
Etymologies
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tungsten + -ite
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In some tungsten deposits a hydrated oxide called tungstite has been formed as a canary-yellow coating at the surface.
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