Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A red, yellow, or brown mineral, essentially an ore of vanadium and lead.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mineral consisting of lead vanadate with lead chlorid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A mineral occurring in yellowish, brownish, and ruby-red hexagonal crystals. It consists of lead vanadate with a small proportion of lead chloride.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A reddish
mineral , a mixedchloride andvanadate oflead with the chemical formulaPb 5(V O 4)3Cl , that is commercial source ofvanadium .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a mineral consisting of chloride and vanadate of lead; a source of vanadium
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Vanadium occurs in certain rare minerals, such as vanadinite
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886
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A very beautiful, deep red mineral, vanadinite, contains vanadium and was named after its vanadium content.
Vanadium 2008
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Blood had frozen in copious quantities between the two walls, giving the inlet the look of quartz littered with crystals of vanadinite.
Mission to Moulokin Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1979
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In the center of the gray stone chest of the statue lay a dimly pulsing light the hue of vanadinite.
Splinter Of The Mind's Eye Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1978
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In the center of the gray stone chest of the statue lay a dimly pulsing light the hue of vanadinite.
Splinter Of The Mind's Eye Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1978
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There were other mines that were quite productive though including a few gold mines along with uranium, asbestos, vanadinite and wulfenite mines.
Desert News 2009
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The sample photo is vanadinite, an ore of vanadium and lead.
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