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Definition of stibnite in English: stibnitenoun ˈstɪbnʌɪtˈstibnīt mass nounA lead-grey mineral, typically occurring as striated prismatic crystals, which consists of antimony sulphide and is the chief ore of antimony. Example sentencesExamples - When exposed by breaking open the quartz, the paakkonenite crystals are virtually identical in appearance to stibnite and exhibit a similar ease of bending.
- The ore consists of enormous veins of massive stibnite.
- There were shops full of green and purple fluorite, ferberite and arsenopyrite, and spessartine and stibnite.
- There will be azurite, pyromorphite, marvelous twinned calcite, stibnite that rivals that from Japan, stibiconite, scheelite, hematite with lightly tinted quartz, cinnabar, hemimorphite, and a range of other colorful minerals.
- Commonly associated minerals include orpiment, stibnite, a variety of sulfides and sulfosalts, calcite, and barite.
Origin Mid 19th century: from Latin stibium 'black antimony' + -ine4 + -ite1. Definition of stibnite in US English: stibnitenounˈstibnīt A lead-gray mineral, typically occurring as striated prismatic crystals, which consists of antimony sulfide and is the chief ore of antimony. Example sentencesExamples - When exposed by breaking open the quartz, the paakkonenite crystals are virtually identical in appearance to stibnite and exhibit a similar ease of bending.
- There will be azurite, pyromorphite, marvelous twinned calcite, stibnite that rivals that from Japan, stibiconite, scheelite, hematite with lightly tinted quartz, cinnabar, hemimorphite, and a range of other colorful minerals.
- There were shops full of green and purple fluorite, ferberite and arsenopyrite, and spessartine and stibnite.
- The ore consists of enormous veins of massive stibnite.
- Commonly associated minerals include orpiment, stibnite, a variety of sulfides and sulfosalts, calcite, and barite.
Origin Mid 19th century: from Latin stibium ‘black antimony’ + -ine + -ite. |