单词 | red silver ore |
释义 | > as lemmasred silver ore red silver ore n. now historical either of two silver-containing minerals (originally not distinguished as separate species): (a) (more fully light red silver ore) = proustite n.; (b) (more fully dark red silver ore) = pyrargyrite n.; cf. silver ore n. ΚΠ 1671 J. Webster Metallographia xiv. 217 Silver Ore that is black,..sometimes also it containeth little sparks of red silver Ore. 1777 R. E. Raspe tr. I. von Born Trav. Bannat of Temeswar xxii. 219 Dr. Moller..has in his cabinet dark red silver ore in globular forms. 1798 G. Mitchell tr. D. L. G. Karsten Descr. Minerals in Leskean Mus. 235 Light red Silver Ore crystallized in similar Prisms, prismatically connected together, in white Cobalt Ore. 1834 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 4 61 By what process nature invests silver glance and red silver ores with native silver in the mines. 1872 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 52 Our ores are chiefly antimonial sulphides, miargyrite, dark red silver ore, and light red silver ore. 1981 Jrnl. Egyptian Archaeol. 67 105 The ‘dry’ silver ores such as..pyrargyrite (Ag3SbS3; dark-red silver ore), proustite (Ag3AsS3; light-red silver ore). < as lemmas |
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