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millerite
1[ mil-uh-rahyt ]
noun
- a mineral, nickel sulfide, NiS, occurring in slender, bronze-colored crystals: a minor ore of nickel.
Millerite
2[ mil-uh-rahyt ]
noun
- a follower of William Miller, a U.S. preacher who taught that the Second Advent of Christ and the beginning of the millennium were to occur in 1843.
millerite
/ ˈ³¾Éª±ôəˌ°ù²¹Éª³Ù /
noun
- a yellow mineral consisting of nickel sulphide in hexagonal crystalline form: a minor ore of nickel. Formula: NiS
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of millerite1
1850–55; Miller ( Miller index ) + -ite 1
Origin of millerite2
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of millerite1
C19: named after W. H. Miller (1801–80), English mineralogist
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It occurs combined with sulphur in millerite, with arsenic in the mineral niccolite, and with arsenic and sulphur in nickel glance.
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The St. Lawrence and Jefferson county hematites were represented by large specimens of ore and by a series of associated rocks and minerals, including some beautiful specimens of millerite, chalcedite, etc.
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