argyrodite

IPA: ɑrdʒɪrʌdaɪt

(mineralogy) An uncommon silver germanium sulfide mineral, black with a purplish tinge and metallic lustre.

Examples of "argyrodite" in Sentences

However, there are no significant argyrodite deposits.
Winkler discovered germanium in the mineral argyrodite.
Germanium was first discovered and isolated from a specimen of the mineral argyrodite.
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The term argyrodite now refers to an entire class of compounds that have a specific arrangement of atoms and type of structure.
The individual components of argyrodite can be replaced by a number of other atoms without altering the typical structure of the mineral.
The team produced a version of the mineral in which silver is replaced by lithium, germanium by phosphorus, and some of the sulphur atoms by halides (chloride, bromide or iodide), resulting in argyrodite-like structures.
A team led by Hans-Joerg Deiseroth in Siegen, Germany, reported in the journal Angewandte Chemie that the characterisation of the most conductive representative of the man-made argyrodite minerals was made of lithium, phosphorus, sulphur and bromine atoms.