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polybasite
[pol-ee-bey-sahyt, puh-lib-uh-sahyt]
noun
a blackish mineral, Ag 9 SbS 6 : a minor ore of silver.
polybasite
/ ˌpɒlɪˈbeɪsaɪt, pəˈlɪbəˌsaɪt /
noun
a grey to black mineral consisting of a sulphide of silver, antimony, and copper in the form of platelike monoclinic crystals. It occurs in veins of silver ore. Formula: (Ag,Cu) 16 Sb 2 S 11
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of polybasite1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of polybasite1
Example Sentences
To the foregoing must still be added the many tons of ruby, silver, polybasite, etc., shipped just as it came from the Poorman mine,—enough, at a rough estimate, to increase the total to fifteen hundred thousand, at least.
Other minerals which yield a minor percentage of the total silver produced are the silver-antimony sulphides, pyrargyrite or "ruby silver," stephanite or "black silver," and polybasite; the silver-arsenic sulphides, proustite or "light ruby silver" and pearcite; and the silver antimonide, dyscrasite.
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