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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An arsenio-sulphid of silver, of a dull-red or clove-brown color, occurring in hexagonal tabular crystals, but commonly in crystalline reniform masses. When reduced to powder it becomes yellow (whence the name). Also zanthoconite.

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