Word Meanings - KOBELLITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A blackish gray mineral, a sulphide of antimony, bismuth, and lead.

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• MINERALIZATION
  The conversion of a cell wall into a material of a stony nature. (more info) 1. The process of mineralizing, or forming a mineral by combination of a metal with another element; also, the process of converting into a mineral, as a bone or a plant.
• SULPHIDE
  A binary compound of sulphur, or one so regarded; -- formerly called sulphuret. Double sulphide , a compound of two sulphides. -- Hydrogen sulphide. See under Hydrogen. -- Metallic sulphide, a binary compound of sulphur with a metal.
• MINERALOGICALLY
  According to the principles of, or with reference to, mineralogy.
• ANTIMONY
  An elementary substance, resembling a metal in its appearance and physical properties, but in its chemical relations belonging to the class of nonmetallic substances. Atomic weight, 120. Symbol, Sb. Note: It is of tin-white color, brittle, laminated
• MINERALOGY
  1. The science which treats of minerals, and teaches how to describe, distinguish, and classify them. 2. A treatise or book on this science.
• MINERALIST
  One versed in minerals; mineralogist.
• BISMUTHOUS
  Of, or containing, bismuth, when this element has its lower valence.
• MINERALOGIZE
  To study mineralogy by collecting and examining minerals. Miss Edgeworth.
• BISMUTHAL
  Containing bismuth.
• MINERALIZER
  An element which is combined with a metal, thus forming an ore. Thus, in galena, or lead ore, sulphur is a mineralizer; in hematite, oxygen is a mineralizer.
• MINERALIZE
  1. To transform into a mineral. In these caverns the bones are not mineralized. Buckland. 2. To impregnate with a mineral; as, mineralized water.
• BISMUTH
  One of the elements; a metal of a reddish white color, crystallizing in rhombohedrons. It is somewhat harder than lead, and rather brittle; masses show broad cleavage surfaces when broken across. It melts at 507º Fahr., being easily fused in the
• BISMUTHIFEROUS
  Containing bismuth.
• MINERALOGIST
  A carrier shell . (more info) 1. One versed in mineralogy; one devoted to the study of minerals.
• MINERAL
  1. An inorganic species or substance occurring in nature, having a definite chemical composition and usually a distinct crystalline form. Rocks, except certain glassy igneous forms, are either simple minerals or aggregates of minerals. 2. A mine.
• BISMUTHYL
  Hydrous carbonate of bismuth, an earthy mineral of a dull white or yellowish color.
• BISMUTHINE; BISMUTHINITE
  Native bismuth sulphide; -- sometimes called bismuthite.
• BISMUTHIC
  Of or pertaining to bismuth; containing bismuth, when this element has its higher valence; as, bismuthic oxide.
• MINERALOGICAL
  Of or pertaining to mineralogy; as, a mineralogical table.
• BLACKISH
  Somewhat black.
• TERSULPHIDE
  A trisulphide.
• AETHIOPS MINERAL
  See MINERAL
• OXYSULPHIDE
  A ternary compound of oxygen and sulphur.
• SESQUISULPHIDE
  A sulphide, analogous to a sesquioxide, containing three atoms of sulphur to two of the other ingredient; -- formerly called also sesquisulphuret; as, orpiment, As2S3 is arsenic sesquisulphide.
• DISULPHIDE
  A binary compound of sulphur containing two atoms of sulphur in each molecule; -- formerly called disulphuret. Cf. Bisulphide.
• PERSULPHIDE
  A sulphide containing more sulphur than some other compound of the same elements; as, iron pyrites is a persulphide; -- formerly called persulphuret.
• MONOSULPHIDE
  A sulphide containing one atom of sulphur, and analogous to a monoxide; -- contrasted with a Ant: polysulphide; as, galena is a monosulphide.
• TRISULPHIDE
  A sulphide containing three atoms of sulphur.
• HYDROSULPHIDE
  One of a series of compounds, derived from hydrogen sulphide by the replacement of half its hydrogen by a base or basic radical; as, potassium hydrosulphide, KSH. The hydrosulphides are analogous to the hydrates and include the mercaptans.