Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mineral consisting chiefly of the chlorid of silver and the bromide of silver, found in Chili and Mexico: so called because intermediate between cerargyrite and bromyrite.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A mineral consisting of both the chloride and the bromide of silver.
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- noun mineralogy A
mineral consisting ofsilver chloride and silverbromide .
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek something thrown in between.
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Examples
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It does not occur free in nature, but is occasionally found in combination with silver as bromargyrite (AgBr) and, together with chloride, in embolite.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886
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(embolite) are fairly common in the oxide zones of silver ores, but are not commercial sources of bromine.
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