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SYLVANITE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sylvanite mean?
• SYLVANITE (noun)
The noun SYLVANITE has 1 sense:
1. a silver-white mineral consisting of silver gold telluride; a source of gold in Australia and America
Familiarity information: SYLVANITE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A silver-white mineral consisting of silver gold telluride; a source of gold in Australia and America
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
graphic tellurium; sylvanite
Hypernyms ("sylvanite" is a kind of...):
mineral (solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition)
Meronyms (substance of "sylvanite"):
atomic number 79; Au; gold (a soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia)
atomic number 52; Te; tellurium (a brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur; it is used in alloys and as a semiconductor; occurs mainly as tellurides in ores of copper and nickel and silver and gold)
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