cobaltine

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Noun[edit]

cobaltine (countable and uncountable, plural cobaltines)

  1. Synonym of cobaltite
    • 1882, Philosophical Magazine, page 477:
      The observation of Schrauf and Dana, that the same thermoelectrical peculiarities are shown by a holohedral mineral of the same crystalline system to which iron pyrites and cobaltine belong, will clearly not strengthen the position taken up by Rose.
    • 1895, Charles George Warnford Lock, Economic Mining, page 411:
      Norway possesses important cobalt deposits at Skuttemd, where be ore is chiefly cobaltine, associated with arsenical and iron pyrites, in bands of quartz-schist and mica-schist, which Prof. Le Neve Foster defines as beds in altered sedimentary strata, while others describe the formation as gneissic.
    • 2000, Geology and Mineral Resources of Azerbaijan, page 69:
      The massive magnetite ores of the South Dashkesan deposit contain up to 12 per cent of sulphides being represented by a range of 70-80 per cent of pyrite, up to 10 per cent of chalcopyrite, cobaltine, rare pyrrhotite arsenopyrite, glaucodote, bornite, sphalerite and galenite.

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cōbaltīne

  1. vocative masculine singular of cōbaltīnus