Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hydrous silicate of nickel and magnesium, occurring in amorphous stalactitic incrustations of an apple-green color on chromite at Texas, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania.
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Nickel ores (genthite), are found in the same locality.
North Carolina and its Resources. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896
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(particularly pentlandite, but also millerite, niccolite, and others), which are found at Sudbury intergrown with the iron and copper sulphides, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite; and the hydrated nickel-magnesium silicates (garnierite and genthite), which are products of weathering.
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