Arsenopyrite Definition

ärsə-nō-pīrīt
noun
A silver-white to gray arsenic ore, essentially FeAsS.
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A silvery-white, hard, brittle, monoclinic mineral, FeAsS; iron arsenic sulfide: it is an ore of arsenic found as a twinned crystal in veins of metamorphic rock.
Webster's New World

(mineralogy) A silvery-grey ore of arsenic, a mixed arsenide and sulfide of iron, FeAsS.

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