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horsfordite Min.|ˈhɔːsfədaɪt|
[f. the name of E. N. Horsford (1818–1893), American chemist: see -ite1.]
A brittle, silvery white antimonide of copper, perhaps Cu5Sb.
1888Laist & Norton in Amer. Chem. Jrnl. X. 62 This new mineral is named horsfordite, in honor of Professor Horsford, formerly Rumford Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University. 1923J. W. Mellor Inorg. & Theoret. Chem. III. xxi. 7 The antimonide: horsfordite, Cu6Sb. 1970Min. Abstr. XXI. 340/2 The properties of cuprostibite are compared with and differ considerably from those of horsfordite, chalcostibite, tetrahedrite, and famatinite. |