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Webster 1913 Edition
Atacamite
A-tac′a-mite
,Noun.
[From the desert of
Atacama
, where found.] (Min.)
An oxychloride of copper, usually in emerald-green prismatic crystals.
Webster 1828 Edition
Atacamite
ATAC'AMITE
,Noun.
Definition 2025
atacamite
atacamite
English
Noun
atacamite (countable and uncountable, plural atacamites)
- (mineralogy) A green copper(II) chloride hydroxide mineral, polymorphous with botallackite.