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Pyrargyrite
A sulfosalt mineral used as a silver ore; it is dark red or black in color with a metallic adamantine luster, a sulfide of antimony and silver, Ag3SbS3, and occurs in rhombohedral crystals.
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A sulfosalt mineral used as a silver ore; it is dark red or black in color with a metallic adamantine luster, a sulfide of antimony and silver, Ag3SbS3, and occurs in rhombohedral crystals.
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| Word | Definition |
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| polyargyritenoun | (mineralogy) A black mineral that is a sulfide of antimony and silver |
| ruby silvernoun | (mineralogy) Synonym of pyrargyrite. |
| argentitenoun | (mineralogy) Silver sulfide (chemical formula Ag₂S), a primary ore of silver, in cubic or hexoctahedral crystals. |
| argentopyritenoun | (mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing iron, silver, and sulfur. |
| cerargyritenoun | (mineralogy) A mineral form of silver chloride, AgCl, that is a rare ore of silver; horn silver. |
| chlorargyritenoun | (mineralogy) The mineral form of silver chloride. |
| argyroditenoun | (mineralogy) An uncommon silver germanium sulfide mineral, black with a purplish tinge and metallic lustre. |
| miargyritenoun | (mineralogy) A sulfide of silver and antimony. |
| kerargyritenoun | Alternative form of cerargyrite. [(mineralogy) A mineral form of silver chloride, AgCl, that is a rare ore of silver; horn silver.] |
| chloroargyritenoun | (rare) Alternative form of chlorargyrite. [(mineralogy) The mineral form of silver chloride.] |
| iodargyritenoun | (mineralogy) A natural mineral form of silver iodide. |
| red silvernoun | An ore of silver, of a ruby-red or reddish black color. It includes proustite, or light red silver, and pyrargyrite, or dark red silver. |
| arsenopyritenoun | (mineralogy) A silvery-grey ore of arsenic, a mixed arsenide and sulfide of iron, FeAsS. |
| pyrgomnoun | A variety of the mineral pyroxene. |
| pyrrhotitenoun | (mineralogy) A weakly magnetic ferrous sulfide mineral, FeS. |
| proustitenoun | (mineralogy) A mineral, Ag₃AsS₃, often found with pyrargyrite in silver veins. |
| enargitenoun | (mineralogy) A steel gray, blackish gray, to violet black copper arsenic sulfosalt mineral with a metallic luster. |
| pyritenoun | (mineralogy) The common mineral iron disulfide (FeS₂), of a pale brass-yellow color and brilliant metallic luster, crystallizing in the isometric system. |
| pyrrhitenoun | (mineralogy) A form of pyrochlore |
| pyrrhosideritenoun | (mineralogy) A form of lepidocrocite |
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