smaltite

smaltite
/smawl"tuyt/, n.
a mineral, originally thought to have been a diarsenide of cobalt, CoAs2, but which is actually a skutterudite rich in cobalt.
Also, smaltine /smawl"tin, -teen/.
[1865-70; SMALT + -ITE1]

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      a cobalt-rich, arsenic-poor member of a series of cobalt nickel arsenide minerals (see skutterudite).

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  • Smaltite — is a variety of the mineral skutterudite consisting of cobalt iron nickel arsenide: (Co,Fe,Ni)As2. It crystallizes in the cubic system with the same hemihedral symmetry as pyrite; crystals have usually the form of cubes or cubo octahedra, but are …   Wikipedia

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  • smaltite — smalt·ite …   English syllables

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