Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hydrous carbonate of nickel. occurring as an emerald-green incrustation on chromite. Also called
emerald nickel .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A hydrous carbonate of nickel occurring as an emerald-green incrustation on chromite; -- called also
emerald nickel .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy a hydrous basic
nickel carbonate occurring in emerald-green incrustations or compact masses
Etymologies
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Spanish zaratita, from Señor Zarate, 19th century Spaniard + Spanish -ita -ite
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