Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
arsenopyrite .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) Arsenical iron pyrites; arsenopyrite.
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- noun The
mineral arsenopyrite
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a silver-white or grey ore of arsenic
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The minerals associated with the quartz in this vein, especially the cuprite and mispickel, are found most abundantly upon the foot-wall side, or underside of the quartz itself.
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The gold is also often visible to the naked eye in all the associated minerals, and particularly in the mispickel and blende.
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The underlying slate is filled with bunches of mispickel, not distributed in a sheet, or in any particular order, so far as yet observed, but developed throughout the slate, and varying in size from that of small nuts to many pounds in weight, masses of over fifty pounds having been frequently taken out.
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All the miners are agreed in the statement that the gold abounds most at the swells, or highest points of the waves of rock, and that the scarcely less valuable mispickel appears to follow the same law.
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A sample of mispickel contains 7 per cent. cobalt.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886
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With mispickel, and those substances which easily give off arsenic on heating, the substance is first treated with nitric acid, evaporated to dryness, and then the residue is treated in the way just described.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886
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Iron is found combined with sulphur in pyrrhotine and pyrites, and together with arsenic in mispickel.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886
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Sulphur in blende, 375 in burnt ore, 377 in chalcocite, 376 in coal, 419 in copper, 207 in copper pyrites, 376 in mispickel, 376 in pyrites, 370, 376
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886
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~ -- In assaying ores containing a large proportion of pyrites or mispickel, or both, the best plan is to take a portion and calcine so as to convert it into a product of the kind just considered.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886
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The chief source of the arsenic of commerce is arsenical pyrites, or mispickel, which contains about 45 per cent. of arsenic (As).
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886
whichbe commented on the word mispickel
The product of a pickling accident.
October 14, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word mispickel
It's reesetee's fault.
October 14, 2008