Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A pale green or apple-green mineral, (Ni, Mg)3Si2O5(OH)4, used as a gemstone and as an important nickel ore.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hydrous silicate of nickel and magnesium, occurring massive and of an apple-green color in New Caledonia. It is an important ore of nickel. A similar mineral occurs in Oregon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) An amorphous mineral of apple-green color; a hydrous silicate of nickel and magnesia. It is an important ore of nickel.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A green
nickel ore found infissures ofweathered ultramafic rocks .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a green mineral consisting of hydrated nickel magnesium silicate; a source of nickel
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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The second, the garnierite or "lateritic" type of nickel ores, is somewhat more common and is represented by the deposits of New
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Noumeite and garnierite are hydrated silicates of nickel and magnesia.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886
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Rational Review 2009
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(particularly pentlandite, but also millerite, niccolite, and others), which are found at Sudbury intergrown with the iron and copper sulphides, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite; and the hydrated nickel-magnesium silicates (garnierite and genthite), which are products of weathering.
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