tennantite

tennantite
/ten"euhn tuyt'/, n.
a mineral, copper arsenic sulfide, approximately Cu3AsS3: a copper ore and an end member of a series of solid solutions into which antimony enters to form tetrahedrite.
[1830-40; after S. TENNANT; see -ITE1]

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