alabanditen.
/aləˈbandʌɪt/, U.S. /ˌæləˈbændaɪt/ Mineralogy.
A grey mineral of metallic appearance, consisting of manganese( ii) sulphide and typically occurring as cubic or octahedral crystals.Chemical formula: MnS. Crystal system: cubic.
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1868 J. D. Dana Syst. Mineral. (ed. 5) 46 Alabandite... Isometric. In cubes and octahedrons... Lustre submetallic. Color iron-black, tarnished brown on exposure.
1901 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 80 ii. 395 The schistose limestones of the mountain of Serre d'Azet are impregnated with rhodonite, friedelite, rhodochrosite, alabandite, hübnerite, tephroite and various manganese oxides.
1937 Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 59 1961/1 Alabandite, manganous sulfide, has been shown by Wyckoff to have the rock-salt structure or one very similar.
1988 Nature 18 Feb. 579/2 In the enstatite chondrite Indarch [sc. a meteorite], manganese is present in alabandite (MnS) and chromium in daubreelite (Cr2FeS4).
2010 Icarus 208 957/2 Magnetization of alabandite or troilite in certain temperature regions is still one to three orders of magnitude lower compared to that of FeNi.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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