Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A variety of hessite, or silver telluride, containing about 20 percent. of gold.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A telluride of silver and gold, related to hessite.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A soft, steel-gray
isometric telluride mineral generally deposited byhydrothermal activity and usually associated with raretellurium andgold minerals.
Etymologies
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Petz + -ite, after chemist W. Petz.
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A small part of the world's supply is obtained from the gold-silver tellurides -- calaverite, sylvanite, krennerite, and petzite.
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