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SMALTITE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A grey mineral consisting of cobalt arsenide and nickel; an important source of cobalt and nickel
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("smaltite" is a kind of...):
mineral (solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition)
Meronyms (substance of "smaltite"):
atomic number 27; Co; cobalt (a hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element; a trace element in plant and animal nutrition)
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)
