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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[So named after F. X.

Wulfen

, an Australian mineralogist.]

(Min.)

Native lead molybdate occurring in tetragonal crystals, usually tabular, and of a bright orange-yellow to red, gray, or brown color; – also called

yellow lead ore

See also: wulfenite and wulfénite

Wulfenite n

See also: Wulfenite and wulfénite

Wulfenite

wulfenite ‎(countable and uncountable, plural wulfenites)

↑ Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine W. Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig: Dana's new mineralogy, John Wiley & Sons, 1997