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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A brittle steel-gray or iron-black ore of tin, of a metallic luster, consisting of the sulphids of tin, copper, and iron, and generally zinc, found in Cornwall; tin pyrites. Also called, from its color, bell-metal ore.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A mineral of a steel-gray or iron-black color; tin pyrites. It is a sulphide of tin, copper, and iron.
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- noun mineralogy The
mineral stannite .
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Tin also occurs as sulphide combined with sulphides of copper and iron in the mineral stannine or bell-metal ore.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886
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