Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mineral containing silver, sulphur, and the new element germanium. It occurs in steel-gray crystalline aggregates at Freiberg, Saxony.
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- noun mineralogy An uncommon
silver germanium sulfide mineral , black with a purplish tinge andmetallic lustre .
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- noun a rare steel-grey mineral consisting of silver and germanium and sulfur
Etymologies
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The term argyrodite now refers to an entire class of compounds that have a specific arrangement of atoms and type of structure.
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However, there are no significant argyrodite deposits.
Germanium 2008
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Winkler discovered germanium in the mineral argyrodite.
Germanium 2008
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Germanium was first discovered and isolated from a specimen of the mineral argyrodite.
Germanium 2008
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The individual components of argyrodite can be replaced by a number of other atoms without altering the typical structure of the mineral.
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The team produced a version of the mineral in which silver is replaced by lithium, germanium by phosphorus, and some of the sulphur atoms by halides (chloride, bromide or iodide), resulting in argyrodite-like structures.
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A team led by Hans-Joerg Deiseroth in Siegen, Germany, reported in the journal Angewandte Chemie that the characterisation of the most conductive representative of the man-made argyrodite minerals was made of lithium, phosphorus, sulphur and bromine atoms.
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Humanly real estate manassas receptiveness to aclant me if they are ventilation dismount and pignut to argyrodite.
Rational Review 2009
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