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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A basic sulphate of lead occurring in greenish-white or pale-yellow monoclinic crystals at Leadhills in Lanarkshire, Scotland.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A mineral consisting of sulphate of lead, occurring either massive or in long slender prisms, of a greenish white or gray color.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A
mineral form oflead sulfate with thechemical formula Pb2(SO4)O, anoxidation product ofgalena , whoseacicular monoclinic prismatic crystals are white or light green.
Etymologies
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Lanarkshire, where it was discovered, and -ite.
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