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vasilite

vasilite noun: an isometric-hextetrahedral steel gray mineral containing copper, palladium, sulfur, and tellurium.

vasilite: an isometric-hextetrahedral steel gray mineral containing copper, palladium, sulfur, and tellurium
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Noun

vasilite

  1. An isometric-hextetrahedral steel gray mineral containing copper, palladium, sulfur, and tellurium.

Origin of vasilite

Named after Bulgarian docent of mineralogy at the Higher Institute of Mining and Geology, Sofia, Vasil Atanasov (1933–2015), + -ite.

Questions about vasilite

What does vasilite mean?
Vasilite means an isometric-hextetrahedral steel gray mineral containing copper, palladium, sulfur, and tellurium.
What part of speech is vasilite?
Vasilite is a noun.

Words near vasilite in the dictionary

  1. Vasilievs
  2. Vasilii
  3. Vasilikas
  4. Vasilios
  5. Vasilis
  6. vasilite
  7. Vasilkov
  8. vasilopita
  9. vasilopitas
  10. Vasilopoulos
  11. Vasily

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