Scheelite Definition

shālīt, shē-
noun
A yellowish-white to brown, hard mineral, calcium tungstate, CaWO4, that is an ore of tungsten.
Webster's New World

Origin of Scheelite

  • Named after the Swedish chemist Karl Wilhelm Scheele (1742-1786).

    From Wiktionary

  • After Carl Wilhelm Scheele

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

Scheelite Sentence Examples

  • Scheelite, another mineral of tungsten, is also found in Queensland.

  • Tungsten is found as wolframite in Stevens county near Deer Trail and Bissell, in Okanogan county near Loomis, in Whatcom county near the international boundary, and (with some scheelite) at Silver Hill, near Spokane.

  • His next discovery, in 1781, was the composition of the mineral tungsten, since called scheelite (calcium tungstate), from which he obtained tungstic acid.

  • Its presence in scheelite was detected by Scheele and Bergman in 1781, and in 1783 Juan, Jose and d'Elhuyar showed the same substance occurred in wolfram; they also obtained the metal.

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