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Argentite
noun · 78% connection
Sulphide of silver; -- also called vitreous silver, or silver glance. It has a metallic luster, a lead-gray color, and is sectile like…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mineral, brownish, color, vitreous, luster.
Babingtonite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral occurring in triclinic crystals approaching pyroxene in angle, and of a greenish black color. It is a silicate of iron, mang…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mineral, brownish, color, vitreous, luster.
Bole
noun · 78% connection
Any one of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually colored more or less strongly red by oxide of iron, and used to color and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mineral, brownish, color, vitreous, luster.
Chalcocite
noun · 78% connection
Native copper sulphide, called also copper glance, and vitreous copper; a mineral of a black color and metallic luster.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mineral, brownish, color, vitreous, luster.
Chlorite
noun · 78% connection
The name of a group of minerals, usually of a green color and micaceous to granular in structure. They are hydrous silicates of alumin…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mineral, brownish, color, vitreous, luster.
Columbite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral of a black color, submetallic luster, and high specific specific gravity. It is a niobate (or columbate) of iron and mangane…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mineral, brownish, color, vitreous, luster.
Drummond light
unknown · 78% connection
A very intense light, produced by turning two streams of gas, one oxygen and the other hydrogen, or coal gas, in a state of ignition,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mineral, brownish, color, vitreous, luster.
Epidote
noun · 78% connection
A mineral, commonly of a yellowish green (pistachio) color, occurring granular, massive, columnar, and in monoclinic crystals. It is a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mineral, brownish, color, vitreous, luster.
Euxenite
noun · 78% connection
A brownish black mineral with a metallic luster, found in Norway. It contains niobium, titanium, yttrium, and uranium, with some other…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mineral, brownish, color, vitreous, luster.
Feldspath
noun · 78% connection
A name given to a group of minerals, closely related in crystalline form, and all silicates of alumina with either potash, soda, lime,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mineral, brownish, color, vitreous, luster.
Frett
noun · 78% connection
A vitreous compound, used by potters in glazing, consisting of lime, silica, borax, lead, and soda.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mineral, brownish, color, vitreous, luster.
Gadolinite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral of a nearly black color and vitreous luster, and consisting principally of the silicates of yttrium, cerium, and iron.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mineral, brownish, color, vitreous, luster.
Garnet
noun · 78% connection
A mineral having many varieties differing in color and in their constituents, but with the same crystallization (isometric), and confo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mineral, brownish, color, vitreous, luster.
Helvite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral of a yellowish color, consisting chiefly of silica, glucina, manganese, and iron, with a little sulphur.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mineral, brownish, color, vitreous, luster.
Hematite
noun · 78% connection
An important ore of iron, the sesquioxide, so called because of the red color of the powder. It occurs in splendent rhombohedral cryst…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mineral, brownish, color, vitreous, luster.
Hornblende
noun · 78% connection
a green to black mineral of the amphibole group; consists of silicates of calcium and sodium and magnesium and iron
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mineral, brownish, color, vitreous, luster.
Humite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral of a transparent vitreous brown color, found in the ejected masses of Vesuvius. It is a silicate of iron and magnesia, conta…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mineral, brownish, color, vitreous, luster.
Iolite
noun · 78% connection
A silicate of alumina, iron, and magnesia, having a bright blue color and vitreous luster; cordierite. It is remarkable for its dichro…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mineral, brownish, color, vitreous, luster.
