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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, lead-gray, color, brilliant, metallic.
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: mineral, lead-gray, color, brilliant, metallic.
Barite
noun · 78% connection
Native sulphate of barium, a mineral occurring in transparent, colorless, white to yellow crystals (generally tabular), also in granul…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mineral, lead-gray, color, brilliant, metallic.
Berthierite
noun · 78% connection
A double sulphide of antimony and iron, of a dark steel-gray color.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mineral, lead-gray, color, brilliant, metallic.
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, lead-gray, color, brilliant, metallic.
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, lead-gray, color, brilliant, metallic.
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, lead-gray, color, brilliant, metallic.
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: mineral, lead-gray, color, brilliant, metallic.
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, lead-gray, color, brilliant, metallic.
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, lead-gray, color, brilliant, metallic.
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: mineral, lead-gray, color, brilliant, metallic.
Freieslebenite
noun · 78% connection
A sulphide of antimony, lead, and silver, occuring in monoclinic crystals.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mineral, lead-gray, color, brilliant, metallic.
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, lead-gray, color, brilliant, metallic.
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, lead-gray, color, brilliant, metallic.
Glance
noun · 78% connection
A name given to some sulphides, mostly dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called copper…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mineral, lead-gray, color, brilliant, metallic.
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, lead-gray, color, brilliant, metallic.
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: mineral, lead-gray, color, brilliant, metallic.
Kobellite
noun · 78% connection
A blackish gray mineral, a sulphide of antimony, bismuth, and lead.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mineral, lead-gray, color, brilliant, metallic.