smaltite
IPA: smˈæɫtɪt
noun
- (mineralogy) A variety of skutterudite with the chemical formula (Co,Fe,Ni)As₂, crystallizing in the cubic system.
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Examples of "smaltite" in Sentences
- Smaltite is a synonym for the mineral.
- There is a cutting through the rock of solid smaltite.
- The mineral which contains cobalt is arsenide, known as smaltite.
- The principal cobalt minerals are smaltite (cobalt arsenide), cobaltite
- Its chief ores are smaltite and cobaltite, which are arsenides of cobalt, with more or less iron, nickel, and copper.
- It rusts in just the same way that iron rusts, and the rust is known as cobalt bloom, being nothing more than rust produced by the decay of this mineral smaltite.