English Explanatory Dictionary

tennantite

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A sulfide mineral of iron, copper and arsenic that is an ore of copper

Word forms

tennantite tennantites

Etymology

Originally named "gray sulphuret of copper in dodecahedral crystals" in 1817 by mineralogist James Sowerby. Renamed in 1819 by William Phillips in honour of Smithson Tennant (1761-1815), an English chemist who discovered the elements iridium and osmium. Tennant + -ite

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