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metacinnabar

[met-uh-sin-uh-bahr]

noun

Mineralogy.
  1. a polymorph of cinnabar, black mercuric sulfide, HgS.



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Minor sources include the black or gray sulphide, metacinnabar, the native metal, and the white mercurous chloride, calomel.

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