maucheriten.
/ˈmaʊxərʌɪt/, /ˈmaʊkərʌɪt/, /ˈmaʊʃərʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈmaʊkəˌraɪt/, /ˈmaʊʃəˌraɪt/ Mineralogy.
A tetragonal nickel arsenide, Ni11As8, occurring as brittle, opaque, reddish-grey crystals which have a metallic lustre and tarnish on exposure.
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maucherite1913
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1913 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 104 516 Maucherite, a new nickel mineral from Thuringia... This new mineral, which was at first mistaken for rammelsbergite, occurs..in veins..in the copper-shales..at Eisleben, Thuringia.
1940 Mineral. Mag. 25 570 A physical, chemical, and preliminary structural study of maucherite..from Eisleben, Thuringia, and Sudbury, Ontario, and temiskamite..from Elk Lake, Ontario, shows that these minerals..represent a single mineral species.
1972 R. Galopin & N. F. M. Henry Microsc. Study Opaque Minerals viii. 201 Pentlandite and Maucherite are both yellowish and of similar reflectivity, but they are easily distinguished when they occur together.
1986 Canad. Jrnl. Earth Sci. 23 1476/1 Maucherite was identified only in the ores of the Contact Lake and Terra deposits, where it occurs as bands with nickeline.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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