GERSDORFFITE Definition & Meaning

gersdorffite

[gerz-dawr-fahyt, gers-]

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a mineral, sulfide-arsenide of nickel, NiAsS, occurring in metallic, light-gray cubes.

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1840–50; < German, after von Gersdorff, the name of a 19th-century family of mine owners in Austria; -ite ¹

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