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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: rare, mineral, velvet-black, color, submetallic.
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: rare, mineral, velvet-black, color, submetallic.
Cerite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral of a brownish of cherry-red color, commonly massive. It is a hydrous silicate of cerium and allied metals.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rare, mineral, velvet-black, color, submetallic.
Chromite
noun · 78% connection
A black submetallic mineral consisting of oxide of chromium and iron; -- called also chromic iron.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rare, mineral, velvet-black, color, submetallic.
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: rare, mineral, velvet-black, color, submetallic.
Decipium
noun · 78% connection
A supposed rare element, said to be associated with cerium, yttrium, etc., in the mineral samarskite, and more recently called samariu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rare, mineral, velvet-black, color, submetallic.
Eschynite
noun · 78% connection
A rare mineral, containing chiefly niobium, titanium, thorium, and cerium. It was so called by Berzelius on account of the inability o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rare, mineral, velvet-black, color, submetallic.
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: rare, mineral, velvet-black, color, submetallic.
Fergusonite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral of a brownish black color, essentially a tantalo-niobate of yttrium, erbium, and cerium; -- so called after Robert Ferguson.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rare, mineral, velvet-black, color, submetallic.
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: rare, mineral, velvet-black, color, submetallic.
Jet
noun · 78% connection
A variety of lignite, of a very compact texture and velvet black color, susceptible of a good polish, and often wrought into mourning…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rare, mineral, velvet-black, color, submetallic.
Lanthanum
noun · 78% connection
A rare element of the group of the earth metals, allied to aluminium. It occurs in certain rare minerals, as cerite, gadolinite, orthi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rare, mineral, velvet-black, color, submetallic.
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: rare, mineral, velvet-black, color, submetallic.
Menaccanite
noun · 78% connection
An iron-black or steel-gray mineral, consisting chiefly of the oxides of iron and titanium. It is commonly massive, but occurs also in…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rare, mineral, velvet-black, color, submetallic.
Mockado
noun · 78% connection
A stuff made in imitation of velvet; -- probably the same as mock velvet.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rare, mineral, velvet-black, color, submetallic.
Monazite
noun · 78% connection
a reddish-brown mineral containing rare earth metals; an important source of thorium and cerium
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rare, mineral, velvet-black, color, submetallic.
Phosgenite
noun · 78% connection
A rare mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals of a white, yellow, or grayish color and adamantine luster. It is a chlorocarbonate of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rare, mineral, velvet-black, color, submetallic.
Pitchblende
noun · 78% connection
a mineral consisting of uranium oxide and trace amounts of radium and thorium and polonium and lead and helium; uraninite in massive f…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rare, mineral, velvet-black, color, submetallic.
