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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, occurring, soft, lead-gray, foliated.
Asbestos
noun · 78% connection
A variety of amphibole or of pyroxene, occurring in long and delicate fibers, or in fibrous masses or seams, usually of a white, gray,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mineral, occurring, soft, lead-gray, foliated.
Black lead
unknown · 78% connection
Plumbago; graphite. It leaves a blackish mark somewhat like lead. See Graphite.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mineral, occurring, soft, lead-gray, foliated.
Blende
noun · 78% connection
A mineral, called also sphalerite, and by miners mock lead, false galena, and black-jack. It is a zinc sulphide, but often contains so…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mineral, occurring, soft, lead-gray, foliated.
Boulangerite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral of a bluish gray color and metallic luster, usually in plumose masses, also compact. It is a sulphide of antimony and lead.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mineral, occurring, soft, lead-gray, foliated.
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: mineral, occurring, soft, lead-gray, foliated.
Brucite
noun · 78% connection
A white, pearly mineral, occurring thin and foliated, like talc, and also fibrous; a native magnesium hydrate.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mineral, occurring, soft, lead-gray, foliated.
Carbon
noun · 78% connection
An elementary substance, not metallic in its nature, which is present in all organic compounds. Atomic weight 11.97. Symbol C. it is c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mineral, occurring, soft, lead-gray, foliated.
Cinnabar
noun · 78% connection
Red sulphide of mercury, occurring in brilliant red crystals, and also in red or brown amorphous masses. It is used in medicine.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mineral, occurring, soft, lead-gray, foliated.
Elaterite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral resin, of a blackish brown color, occurring in soft, flexible masses; -- called also mineral caoutchouc, and elastic bitumen.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mineral, occurring, soft, lead-gray, foliated.
Foliated
adjective · 78% connection
Characterized by being separable into thin plates or folia; as, graphite has a foliated structure.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mineral, occurring, soft, lead-gray, foliated.
Galena
noun · 78% connection
Lead sulphide; the principal ore of lead. It is of a bluish gray color and metallic luster, and is cubic in crystallization and cleava…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mineral, occurring, soft, lead-gray, foliated.
Geocronite
noun · 78% connection
A lead-gray or grayish blue mineral with a metallic luster, consisting of sulphur, antimony, and lead, with a small proportion of arse…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mineral, occurring, soft, lead-gray, foliated.
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: mineral, occurring, soft, lead-gray, foliated.
Greenockite
noun · 78% connection
Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mineral, occurring, soft, lead-gray, foliated.
Halloysite
noun · 78% connection
A claylike mineral, occurring in soft, smooth, amorphous masses, of a whitish color.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mineral, occurring, soft, lead-gray, foliated.
Heulandite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral of the Zeolite family, often occurring in amygdaloid, in foliated masses, and also in monoclinic crystals with pearly luster…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mineral, occurring, soft, lead-gray, foliated.
Hubner
noun · 78% connection
A mineral of brownish black color, occurring in columnar or foliated masses. It is native manganese tungstate.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mineral, occurring, soft, lead-gray, foliated.
