Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Native silver chlorid, a mineral occurring crystallized in cubes, also more commonly massive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) Native silver chloride, a mineral of a white to pale yellow or gray color, darkening on exposure to the light. It may be cut by a knife, like lead or horn (hence called
horn silver ).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A
mineral form of silver chloride,Ag Cl , that is a rareore ofsilver ; horn silver.
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Examples
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Under weathering conditions, the silver sulphide minerals in general are oxidized to form native silver and cerargyrite, which are relatively insoluble and remain for the most part in the oxide zone.
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Silver is often represented in the outcrop by silver chloride or cerargyrite, which may be easily identified.
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In the oxide zone the most abundant minerals are cerargyrite (silver chloride) and native or "horn" silver.
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