animikite

animikite
\\əˈniməˌkīt\ noun (-s)
Etymology: Chippewa animiki thunder (intended as translation of Thunder Bay, inlet in northwestern Lake Superior, Ontario, Canada, near which it was discovered) + English -ite
: a mineral consisting of a silver antimonide occurring in white or gray granular masses

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  • animikite — anim·i·kite …   English syllables

  • macfarlanite — macˈfarlanite Min. [Named by A. H. Sibley, 1880, after T. Macfarlane, who described it: see ite.] ‘A mixture of huntilite, animikite and other minerals, which constitutes the ore of the mines at Silver Islet, Ontario’ (A. H. Chester) …   Useful english dictionary

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