Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A pale brass-yellow to silver-white ore of gold and silver, chiefly (Au,Ag)Te2.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A native telluride of gold, silver, and sometimes lead.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A telluride of gold and silver, (Au, Ag)Te2, of a steel gray, silver white, or brass yellow. It often occurs in implanted crystals resembling written characters, and hence is called
graphic tellurium . H., 1.5-2. Sp.gr., 7.9-8.3.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy
Silver gold telluride , a softmetallic mineral ranging in colour from steely gray to almost white.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a silver-white mineral consisting of silver gold telluride; a source of gold in Australia and America
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It combines with oxygen to form tellurite, and with gold and silver to form sylvanite (Au, Ag) Te2.
Tellurium 2008
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A small part of the world's supply is obtained from the gold-silver tellurides -- calaverite, sylvanite, krennerite, and petzite.
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This side the exposed reef may have been ground down below the sylvanite.
Rimrock Trail 1906
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He figgers this sylvanite lies under this porphyry reef, sabe?
Rimrock Trail 1906
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But the strikes were rich because sylvanite is one of the richest of all gold ores.
Rimrock Trail 1906
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Experience counts a lot, of course, but I do know something about sylvanite, or white gold.
Rimrock Trail 1906
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Offices of the Casey Town Mining Company with alluring specimens behind glass cases, with models of mining machinery and of sections of mines, framed maps and drawings, blue-prints, a chunk of sylvanite ore in a railed-off enclosure with the legend of its marvelous value.
Rimrock Trail 1906
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Then would come the prospectuses with these extracts of the best paragraphs, tied up with views of Casey Town, with engineers 'reports, with semi-scientific stuff about sylvanite, a masterpiece of romance and fiction, peppered with fact.
Rimrock Trail 1906
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The most common mineral of tellurium is sylvanite.
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The most common mineral of tellurium is sylvanite.
fbharjo commented on the word sylvanite
a steel-colored naturally occurring telluride.
January 18, 2011