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Zinkenite

Zink′en-ite

(-en-īt)

,

Noun.

[From

Zinken

, director at one time of the Hanoverian mines.]

(Min.)

A steel-gray metallic mineral, a sulphide of antimony and lead.

Definition 2025

zinkenite

zinkenite

English

Zinkenite

Noun

zinkenite ‎(usually uncountable, plural zinkenites)

(mineralogy) A grey mineral with hexagonal crystals, Pb₉Sb₂₂S₄₂.

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