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ARGYRODITE

Dictionary entry overview: What does argyrodite mean?

• ARGYRODITE (noun)
The noun ARGYRODITE has 1 sense:

1. a rare steel-grey mineral consisting of silver and germanium and sulfur

Familiarity information: ARGYRODITE used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• ARGYRODITE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A rare steel-grey mineral consisting of silver and germanium and sulfur

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("argyrodite" is a kind of...):

mineral (solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition)

Meronyms (substance of "argyrodite"):

atomic number 32; Ge; germanium (a brittle grey crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors; occurs in germanite and argyrodite)

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