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petzite

petzite noun: a soft, steel-gray isometric telluride mineral generally deposited by hydrothermal activity and usually associated with rare tellurium and gold minerals.

Noun

petzite (countable and uncountable, plural petzites)

  1. A soft, steel-gray isometric telluride mineral generally deposited by hydrothermal activity and usually associated with rare tellurium and gold minerals.

Forms of petzite

pluralpetzites

Origin of petzite

From Petz + -ite, after chemist W. Petz.

Questions about petzite

What does petzite mean?
Petzite means a soft, steel-gray isometric telluride mineral generally deposited by hydrothermal activity and usually associated with rare tellurium and gold minerals.
What part of speech is petzite?
Petzite is a noun.
What is the plural of petzite?
The plural of petzite is petzites.

Words near petzite in the dictionary

  1. Petways
  2. Petwo
  3. Petworth
  4. Petz
  5. Petzes
  6. petzite
  7. petzites
  8. Petzold
  9. Petzolds
  10. Petzval lens
  11. Petzval lenses

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