Cerussite meaning

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A colorless or white mineral, PbCO3 , that is an ore of lead; lead carbonate.
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A soft, heavy, orthorhombic mineral, PbCO3, that is an ore of lead; lead carbonate.
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(mineralogy) A mineral form of lead carbonate, PbCO3, that is an ore of lead.
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Origin of cerussite

  • German Zerussit from Latin cērussa ceruse

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin cērussa (“white lead”).

    From Wiktionary

Cerussite Sentence Examples

  • Considerable quantities of the following minerals have been found: barytes (heavy spar), magnetite (magnetic iron ore), and pyrolusite (manganese dioxide) in Humboldt county; roofing slate in Esmeralda county; cinnabar (ore containing quicksilver) in Washoe county; haematite in Elko and Churchill counties; cerussite and galena (lead ores) in Eureka county; and wolframite (a source of tungsten) at Round Mountain, White Pine county.

  • The chief lead ores are galena and cerussite; of minor importance are anglesite, pyromorphite and mimetesite (qq.v.).

  • The native carbonate or cerussite (q.v.) occasionally occurs in the pure form, but more frequently in a state of intimate intermixture with clay ("lead earth," Bleierde), limestone, iron oxides, &c. (as in the ores of Nevada and Colorado), and some times also with coal ("black lead ore").

  • Lead carbonate, PbCO 3, occurs in nature as the mineral cerussite (q.v.).

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