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Amphibole
noun · 78% connection
A common mineral embracing many varieties varying in color and in composition. It occurs in monoclinic crystals; also massive, general…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oxides, manganese, called, gray, occurs.
Arsenic
noun · 78% connection
One of the elements, a solid substance resembling a metal in its physical properties, but in its chemical relations ranking with the n…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oxides, manganese, called, gray, occurs.
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: oxides, manganese, called, gray, occurs.
Bead
noun · 78% connection
A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oxides, manganese, called, gray, occurs.
Bournonite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral of a steel-gray to black color and metallic luster, occurring crystallized, often in twin crystals shaped like cogwheels (wh…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oxides, manganese, called, gray, occurs.
Cassiterite
noun · 78% connection
Native tin dioxide; tin stone; a mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals of reddish brown color, and brilliant adamantine luster; als…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oxides, manganese, called, gray, occurs.
Chalcopyrite
noun · 78% connection
Copper pyrites, or yellow copper ore; a common ore of copper, containing copper, iron, and sulphur. It occurs massive and in tetragona…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oxides, manganese, called, gray, occurs.
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: oxides, manganese, called, gray, occurs.
Danalite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral occuring in octahedral crystals, also massive, of a reddish color. It is a silicate of iron, zinc manganese, and glucinum, c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oxides, manganese, called, gray, occurs.
Enargite
noun · 78% connection
An iron-black mineral of metallic luster, occurring in small orthorhombic crystals, also massive. It contains sulphur, arsenic, copper…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oxides, manganese, called, gray, occurs.
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: oxides, manganese, called, gray, occurs.
Flint
noun · 78% connection
A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oxides, manganese, called, gray, occurs.
Graphite
noun · 78% connection
Native carbon in hexagonal crystals, also foliated or granular massive, of black color and metallic luster, and so soft as to leave a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oxides, manganese, called, gray, occurs.
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: oxides, manganese, called, gray, occurs.
Iron
noun · 78% connection
The most common and most useful metallic element, being of almost universal occurrence, usually in the form of an oxide (as hematite,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oxides, manganese, called, gray, occurs.
Jamesonite
noun · 78% connection
A steel-gray mineral, of metallic luster, commonly fibrous massive. It is a sulphide of antimony and lead, with a little iron.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oxides, manganese, called, gray, occurs.
Linnaeite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral of pale steel-gray color and metallic luster, occurring in isometric crystals, and also massive. It is a sulphide of cobalt…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oxides, manganese, called, gray, occurs.
Magnetite
noun · 78% connection
An oxide of iron (Fe3O4) occurring in isometric crystals, also massive, of a black color and metallic luster. It is readily attracted…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oxides, manganese, called, gray, occurs.
