Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rare sulpharsenide of thallium, TlAsS2, which occurs in complex monoclinic crystals of a cochineal-red color: found with realgar at Allchar, Macedonia.
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- noun mineralogy A monoclinic-prismatic
mineral containingarsenic ,sulfur , andthallium .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It forms a small number of rare minerals, including crookesite and lorandite.
Thallium 2008
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Although the metal can be found in higher concentrations (sometimes up to 60 percent) in such minerals as lorandite (TlAsS
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