sylvanite
IPA: sˈɪɫvʌnaɪt
noun
- (mineralogy) Silver gold telluride, a soft metallic mineral ranging in color from steely gray to almost white.
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Examples of "sylvanite" in Sentences
- The most common mineral of tellurium is sylvanite.
- He figgers this sylvanite lies under this porphyry reef, sabe?
- This side the exposed reef may have been ground down below the sylvanite.
- But the strikes were rich because sylvanite is one of the richest of all gold ores.
- Experience counts a lot, of course, but I do know something about sylvanite, or white gold.
- It combines with oxygen to form tellurite, and with gold and silver to form sylvanite (Au, Ag) Te2.
- A small part of the world's supply is obtained from the gold-silver tellurides -- calaverite, sylvanite, krennerite, and petzite.
- Then would come the prospectuses with these extracts of the best paragraphs, tied up with views of Casey Town, with engineers 'reports, with semi-scientific stuff about sylvanite, a masterpiece of romance and fiction, peppered with fact.
- Offices of the Casey Town Mining Company with alluring specimens behind glass cases, with models of mining machinery and of sections of mines, framed maps and drawings, blue-prints, a chunk of sylvanite ore in a railed-off enclosure with the legend of its marvelous value.
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