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crerarite

crerarite noun: an isometric-hexoctahedral black mineral containing bismuth, lead, platinum, selenium, and sulfur.

Noun

crerarite

  1. An isometric-hexoctahedral black mineral containing bismuth, lead, platinum, selenium, and sulfur.

Origin of crerarite

From Crerar + -ite, after David Crerar, an American geologist.

Questions about crerarite

What does crerarite mean?
Crerarite means an isometric-hexoctahedral black mineral containing bismuth, lead, platinum, selenium, and sulfur.
What part of speech is crerarite?
Crerarite is a noun.

Words near crerarite in the dictionary

  1. crepy
  2. Creque
  3. Creques
  4. Crerand
  5. Crerands
  6. crerarite
  7. Cres
  8. cres.
  9. Cresap
  10. Cresaps
  11. cresc

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