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单词 mimetite
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Definition of mimetite in English:

mimetite

noun ˈmʌɪmɪtʌɪtˈmɪmɪtʌɪtˈmiməˌtīt
mass noun
  • A yellow or brown mineral consisting of a chloride and arsenate of lead, typically found as a crust or needle-like crystals in lead deposits.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It may be associated with a wide variety of other minerals including cerussite, anglesite, raspite, pyromorphite, mimetite, and scheelite.
    • They were associated with mimetite and unidentified clay minerals.
    • Although some of these specimens were also labeled as being pyromorphite and vanadinite, they were later proven to be mimetite by several analyses from China, the United States, and Germany.
    • Here colorless to yellow crusts of mimetite coat open spaces and coarse fragments in brecciated dacite.
    • Yellow to red-orange mimetite associated with wulfenite is well known from the San Francisco mine, Cucurpe, and good specimens have come from Cerro Prieto, Sonora.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from Greek mimētēs 'imitator' + -ite1.

 
 

Definition of mimetite in US English:

mimetite

nounˈmiməˌtīt
  • A yellow or brown mineral consisting of a chloride and arsenate of lead, typically found as a crust or needle-like crystals in lead deposits.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Although some of these specimens were also labeled as being pyromorphite and vanadinite, they were later proven to be mimetite by several analyses from China, the United States, and Germany.
    • It may be associated with a wide variety of other minerals including cerussite, anglesite, raspite, pyromorphite, mimetite, and scheelite.
    • Here colorless to yellow crusts of mimetite coat open spaces and coarse fragments in brecciated dacite.
    • They were associated with mimetite and unidentified clay minerals.
    • Yellow to red-orange mimetite associated with wulfenite is well known from the San Francisco mine, Cucurpe, and good specimens have come from Cerro Prieto, Sonora.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from Greek mimētēs ‘imitator’ + -ite.

 
 
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