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CASSITERITE

Dictionary entry overview: What does cassiterite mean?

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

1. a hard heavy dark mineral that is the chief source of tin

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

Dictionary entry details

• CASSITERITE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A hard heavy dark mineral that is the chief source of tin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

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

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

Meronyms (substance of "cassiterite"):

atomic number 50; Sn; tin (a silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion; used in many alloys and to coat other metals to prevent corrosion; obtained chiefly from cassiterite where it occurs as tin oxide)

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