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mispickel

[mis-pik-uh l]
noun Mineralogy.
  1. arsenopyrite.

Origin of mispickel

First recorded in 1675–85, mispickel is from the German word Mispickel
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Examples from the Web for mispickel

Historical Examples of mispickel

  • The gold is also often visible to the naked eye in all the associated minerals, and particularly in the mispickel and blende.

  • The pyritic ores of iron, including marcasite, pyrrhotite and mispickel, are often taken for gold by the inexperienced.

    The A B C of Mining

    Charles A. Bramble

British Dictionary definitions for mispickel

mispickel

noun
  1. another name for arsenopyrite

Word Origin for mispickel

C17: from German
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