polybasite

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “polybasite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Polybasite

Noun

polybasite (countable and uncountable, plural polybasites)

1. (mineralogy) An iron-black ore of silver, consisting of silver, sulfur, and antimony, with some copper and arsenic.

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Polybasite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “polybasite”, in Mindat.org‎^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.
• “polybasite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.