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colusite

colusite noun: an isometric-hextetrahedral bronze mineral containing antimony, arsenic, copper, germanium, sulfur, tin, and vanadium.

Noun

colusite

  1. An isometric-hextetrahedral bronze mineral containing antimony, arsenic, copper, germanium, sulfur, tin, and vanadium.

Origin of colusite

From Colusa + -ite, named for the Colusa claim, specifically the Leonard Mine area, near Butte, Montana, United States, by Reno H. Sales, chief geologist for Anaconda Copper Mining Company.

Words formed from colusite

Questions about colusite

What does colusite mean?
Colusite means an isometric-hextetrahedral bronze mineral containing antimony, arsenic, copper, germanium, sulfur, tin, and vanadium.
What part of speech is colusite?
Colusite is a noun.

Words near colusite in the dictionary

  1. coluracetam
  2. colure
  3. colures
  4. Colusa
  5. Colusa County
  6. colusite
  7. Colvard
  8. Colvards
  9. colvasone
  10. Colver
  11. Colvile

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