sylvanite, graphic tellurium
(noun) a silver-white mineral consisting of silver gold telluride; a source of gold in Australia and America
Source: WordNet® 3.1
sylvanite (plural sylvanites)
(mineral) Silver gold telluride, a soft metallic mineral ranging in colour from steely gray to almost white.
Source: Wiktionary
Syl"van*ite, n. Etym: [So called from Transylvania, where it was first found.] (Min.)
Definition: A mineral, a telluride of gold and silver, of a steel-gray, silver-white, or brass-yellow color. It often occurs in implanted crystals resembling written characters, and hence is called graphic tellurium. [Written also silvanite.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
4 April 2025
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
