单词 | niggliite |
释义 | niggliiten. Mineralogy. A hexagonal mineral consisting of platinum and tin, and occurring as silver-white metallic grains, esp. at Ntsizwa in the Eastern Cape province, South Africa.Niggliite was originally thought to consist of platinum and tellurium. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > other miscellaneous minerals > [noun] adamanteOE adamantinec1225 adamant stonea1387 chrysocoll1590 chrysocolla1600 aloe1601 Scythian stone1608 diaspore1802 sideroclepte1814 allagite1823 spherulite1823 aluminide1826 rhodalite1836 aikinite1843 alvite1855 xanthitane1856 belonite1865 aenigmatite1868 opacite1875 viridite1879 neocyanite1882 sideronatrite1882 wittite1924 niggliite1936 anthonyite1963 perryite1965 KREEP1971 1936 D. L. Scholtz in Publ. Univ. Pretoria 2nd Ser. i. 184 (heading) Mineral F (niggliite). 1955 Amer. Mineralogist 40 693 Niggliite..was found in a concentrate which was obtained by panning large amounts of oxidized sulphide ore from Waterfall Gorge, Insizwa, South Africa. 1968 I. Kostov Mineral. 115 Various other formulae have been given to niggliite, PtTe, PtSn, and Pt2Sn3; its structure appears to be that of niccolite. 1993 Canad. Mineralogist 31 31 Mass-balance calculations indicate that sperrylite and niggliite are the most abundant platinum-bearing minerals. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1936 |
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