magnesite
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of magnesite
1805–15; magnes(ia) + -ite 1; compare French magnésite
Example Sentences
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South Koreans were taken to major coal, magnesite, zinc and lead mines mostly in North and South Hamgyeong Provinces, according to the human rights group investigation.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2021
In Chemical Geology as well as a recent patent, Kelemen and his colleagues propose using a mineral called magnesite that, when heated, gives off pure CO2, which could be captured in tanks and pumped underground.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 3, 2020
Kelemen and his colleagues calculate that mining and processing 2 GTs of magnesite would enable capture and injection underground of 1 GT of CO2 every year.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 3, 2020
They mined copper, gold, zinc, lead and magnesite.
From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2017
In Captain King's collection are also specimens found on the beach at Port Macquarie, and in the bed of the Hastings River, of common serpentine, and of botryoidal magnesite, from veins in serpentine.
From Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 by Phillip Parker King
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