sulphuret
Britishverb
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Thus the strongest blue-green, chromium sesquioxide, is but half the chroma of its red complement, the sulphuret of mercury.
From A Color Notation A measured color system, based on the three qualities Hue, Value and Chroma by A. H. (Albert Henry) Munsell
The silver ore of Esmeralda and Coso is a sulphuret of silver, nearly all the veins having the same material, though the amount of it scattered through the vein-stone differs greatly in different lodes.
From Hittel on Gold Mines and Mining by John S. (John Shertzer) Hittell
At the cove on Washita river, fifteen miles below the springs, there is a body of magnetic iron-ore; sulphates of copper and zinc, and sulphuret of iron, in cubical crystals, occur in the same locality.
From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
Louisiana, being chiefly alluvion, furnishes only two specimens, sulphuret of antimony, and meteoric iron ore.
From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by John Mason Peck
Some zinc, in the state of a sulphuret, is found accompanying it.
From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
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