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Definition of Cerussite
1. Noun. A mineral consisting of lead carbonate that is an important source of lead.
Definition of Cerussite
1. Noun. (minerology) A mineral form of lead carbonate, PbCO3, that is an ore of lead. ¹
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Definition of Cerussite
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cerussite
Literary usage of Cerussite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rock Minerals: Their Chemical and Physical Characters and Their by Joseph Paxson Iddings (1911)
"Des Cloizeaux Disp. small p< v Double refraction very strong in aragonite as in
calcite, but much stronger in cerussite. a ..."
2. Bulletin (1906)
"... galena of most mining districts, this mineral found in the Upper Mississippi
valley lead and zinc district contains practically no silver. cerussite. ..."
3. The School of Mines Quarterly by Columbia University School of Chemistry (1904)
"... from the Terrible Mine, Custer Co., Colorado, Warren, CH Am. Jour. Sci., 16,
337, 1903. The cerussite is evidently an alteration product of the ..."
4. Manual of Mineralogy and Petrography: Containing the Elements of the Science by James Dwight Dana (1887)
"... cerussite, anglesite, malachite, with sometimes pyrolusite; Little Cottonwood,
at Emma and other mines, same, with sometimes argentite, ..."
5. The University Geological Survey of Kansas by Erasmus Haworth, Kansas Geological Survey (1904)
"... the unskilled observer to place a greatly exaggerated value on the richness
of the mine. cerussite.—This is a carbonate of lead, PbCO,, and is always a ..."
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