PENTLANDITE

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Meaning:

A mineral (iron and nickel sulphide) that is the chief ore of nickel

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Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("pentlandite" is a kind of...):

mineral (solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition)

Meronyms (substance of "pentlandite"):

atomic number 28; Ni; nickel (a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite)

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