a mineral, green in colour, containing copper and present in Australia, Chile, and Cornwall
Examples of 'atacamite' in a sentence
atacamite
Later the slab became light green because of the atacamite formation.
R V Lobzova, E I Antonova, L I Magazina, O A Cicinova 2010, 'Petrographical study of gilding and paints on white stone XYII ANE (Moscow Cremlin)',RUDN Journal of Engineering Researcheshttp://journals.rudn.ru/engineering-researches/article/view/5140. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Among the sixteen cave mineral species recognized, atacamite, darapskite, blödite, leonite, anhydrite, and especially antarcticite are worth mentioning.
Jo De Waele, Cristina Carbone, Laura Sanna, Marco Vattano, Ermanno Galli, FrancescoSauro, Paolo Forti 2017, 'Secondary minerals from salt caves in the Atacama Desert (Chile): a hyperarid andhypersaline environment with potential analogies to the Martian subsurface', International Journal of Speleologyhttp://scholarcommons.usf.edu/ijs/vol46/iss1/7/. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)