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Webster 1913 Edition


Sperrylite

Sper′ry-lite

,
Noun.
[Named after F. L.
Sperry
, who discovered it.]
(Min.)
An arsenide of platinum occuring in grains and minute isometric crystals of tin-white color. It is found near Sudbury, Ontario Canada, and is the only known compound of platinum occuring in nature.

Definition 2024


sperrylite

sperrylite

English

Noun

sperrylite (countable and uncountable, plural sperrylites)

  1. (mineralogy) An isometric-diploidal tin white mineral containing arsenic and platinum.