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pharmacosiderite

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A hydrous arseniate of iron: same as cube-ore.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Min.) A hydrous arsenate of iron occurring in green or yellowish green cubic crystals; cube ore.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun mineralogy A hydrated basic ferric arsenate, consisting of the elements arsenic, iron, hydrogen, potassium, sodium and oxygen.

Etymologies

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Greek farmakon, poison (i.e. arsenic), and sideros, iron.

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