Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An ore of silver, a sulphid of silver and iron, having a pinchbeck-brown color and metallic luster. It occurs foliated, the laminæ being soft and flexible. It leaves a mark on paper like that of graphite.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A sulphide of silver and iron, occurring in soft flexible laminæ varying in color from brown to black.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy An orthorhombic-dipyramidal light brown
mineral containingiron ,silver , andsulfur .
Etymologies
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Sternberg + -ite, after Count Kaspar Sternberg of Prague.
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