metacinnabar

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English

Etymology

meta- +‎ cinnabar

Noun

metacinnabar (uncountable)

  1. (mineralogy) A isometric-hextetrahedral form of the mineral, cinnabar, containing mercury and sulfur and ranging from black to grayish white.

References

  • David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Metacinnabar”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
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