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- noun mineralogy An orthorhombic-disphenoidal white gray
mineral containingcopper ,mercury ,silver , andsulfur .
Etymologies
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balkan + -ite, after the medieval and popular name of the Stara planina (Balkan) mountains in Europe.
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It is the latest manifestation of the balkanite inferiority complex driven by the most virulent slav nationalism since Milosevic.
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