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Webster 1913 Edition


Bournonite

Bour′non-ite

,
Noun.
[Named after Count
Bournon
, a mineralogist.]
(Min.)
A mineral of a steel-gray to black color and metallic luster, occurring crystallized, often in twin crystals shaped like cogwheels (wheel ore), also massive. It is a sulphide of antimony, lead, and copper.

Webster 1828 Edition


Bournonite

BOURNONITE

,
Noun.
Antimonial sulphuret of lead.

Definition 2024


bournonite

bournonite

English

Noun

bournonite (countable and uncountable, plural bournonites)

  1. (mineralogy) A sulfosalt mineral, a sulfantimonite of lead and copper.