单词 | picotite |
释义 | picotiten. Mineralogy. A black mineral of the spinel group that is an oxide of ferrous iron and chromium and belongs to the cubic crystal system. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > oxides and hydroxides > [noun] > spinel group AB2 O4 > others picotite1814 franklinite1820 hausmannite1831 hercynite1849 jacobsite1869 hetaerolite1877 trippkeite1881 sapphirine1883 water-spinel1883 manganomagnetite1890 chrome-spinel1892 magnesiochromite1892 magnochromite1892 picrochromite1920 trevorite1921 ulvöspinel1947 taaffeite1951 nickel spinel1961 1814 T. Allan Mineral. Nomencl. 37 Picolite... A name given by Charpentier to a mineral from the Pyrenees, resembling Gadolinite. 1832 C. U. Shepard Treat. Mineral. i. 246 Picotite. 1879 F. Rutley Study of Rocks xiii. 264 The picotite appears, under the microscope, in very irregular brown, or..deep olive-green, patches or grains. 1965 G. J. Williams Econ. Geol. N.Z. x. 143/2 The lower part of the dunite sheet (about 1,200 ft thick) consists of olivine and picotite with an MgO content of 47 per cent. 1990 C. Pellant Rocks, Minerals & Fossils 65/3 A series of spinel minerals exists; pleonaste being dark green and containing iron, picotite is brown and contains iron and chromium, [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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