chloanthite

chloanthite
\\klōˈanˌthīt\ noun (-s)
Etymology: German chloanthit, from Greek chloanthēs budding, pale (from chloos light green color + -anthēs blooming, flowered) + German -it -ite; from its frequent green coating — more at glow, -anthes
: a mineral NiAs2-3 consisting of nickel arsenide isomorphous with skutterudite, smaltite, and nickel-skutterudite and being white or grayish with metallic luster and usually massive

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/kloh an"thuyt/, n.
Mineral. a nickel-rich variety of skutterudite, used as an ore of nickel.
[ < Gk chloanth(és) (chlo- (s. of chlóe; see CHLOE) + -anthes comb. form, akin to ánthos flower) + -ITE1]

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chloanthite /klō-anˈthīt/
noun
A valuable nickel ore, nickel arsenide occurring in the cubic system
ORIGIN: From Gr chloanthēs sprouting

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chloanthite Min.
(kləʊˈænθaɪt)
[(1845) f. Gr. χλοανθής budding, sprouting, f. χλόη a young green shoot.]
A variety of smaltite containing a large proportion of nickel. (Dana, 1850.)

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