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  • noun Native mercuric sele-nide, usually occurring massive, of a steel-gray color and metallic luster, rarely in crystals resembling those of sphalerite.

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  • noun mineralogy An isometric-hextetrahedral grayish white mineral containing mercury and selenium.

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  • A mineral.

    August 3, 2008