ENARGITE

Noun

enargite (usually uncountable, plural enargites)

(mineral) A steel gray, blackish gray, to violet black copper arsenic sulfosalt mineral with a metallic luster.

Anagrams

• argentei, gratinee, gratinĂ©e

Source: Wiktionary


En*ar"gite, n. (Min.)

Definition: An iron-black mineral of metallic luster, occurring in small orthorhombic crystals, also massive. It contains sulphur, arsenic, copper, and often silver.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.

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