a mineral, copper arsenic sulfide, approximately Cu3AsS3: a copper ore and an end member of a series of solid solutions into which antimony enters to form tetrahedrite.
Origin of tennantite
1830–40; after S. Tennant; see -ite1
Words nearby tennantite
tenial, teniasis, Teniers, Tenn., Tennant, tennantite, tenner, Tennessean, Tennessee, Tennessee River, Tennessee Valley Authority