molybdenite
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of molybdenite
1790–1800; obsolete molybden(a) molybdenum + -ite 1
Example Sentences
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She had 4,000 tons of U. S. copper and a lot of molybdenite aboard, cleared from Manzanillo on Mexico's west coast and San Pedro, Calif. She, too, was bound for Vladivostok.
From Time Magazine Archive
From her upper crust come such delights of found art as miniature Matterhorns of icy blue molybdenite, spiky flowers of dendritic copper, peaceful crystal groupings of aquamarine beryl and fleshy green clumps of concretionary malachite.
From Time Magazine Archive
It seemed a cinch that neither Russia nor Germany would soon receive those particular tons of copper, tin, antimony, wolframite, molybdenite.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Washington, mining officials happily announced that a "large deposit" of molybdenite had been discovered about 400 miles northwest of Quebec.
From Time Magazine Archive
The larger part of the world's production is from the molybdenite ores.
From The Economic Aspect of Geology by Leith, C. K. (Charles Kenneth)
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