Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In mineralogy, a sulphid of antimony and silver, occurring in monoclinic crystals of an iron-black color with dark cherry-red streak.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A mineral of an iron-black color, and very sectile, consisting principally of sulphur, antimony, and silver.
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- noun mineralogy A
sulfide ofsilver andantimony .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek meyon, "smaller", and argyros, "silver", as its silver content is lower than most silver sulfides.
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Mineralogical analysis shows that silver is contained, partly or fully, in the silver bearing minerals pyrargyrite, naumannite a directly cyanide soluble silver mineral and selenian miargyrite.
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