cooperite

[koo-puh-rahyt]

noun

a mineral, sulfide and arsenide of platinum, occurring in igneous rocks in the form of steel-gray crystals.

Origin of cooperite

after R. A. Cooper, who described it in 1920; see -ite¹

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