Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Native mercuric sulphid, crystallizing in tetrahedral crystals, resembling those of the zinc sulphid sphalerite, also occurring massive of a black or grayish-black color. It is found with the red mercuric sulphid cinnabar in California.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) Sulphide of mercury in isometric form and black in color.
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- noun mineralogy
sulphide ofmercury in a blackisometric form
Etymologies
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meta- + cinnabarite
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