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Webster 1913 Edition


Atacamite

A-tac′a-mite

,
Noun.
[From the desert of
Atacama
, where found.]
(Min.)
An oxychloride of copper, usually in emerald-green prismatic crystals.

Webster 1828 Edition


Atacamite

ATAC'AMITE

,
Noun.
A muriate of copper

Definition 2024


atacamite

atacamite

English

Noun

atacamite (countable and uncountable, plural atacamites)

  1. (mineralogy) A green copper(II) chloride hydroxide mineral, polymorphous with botallackite.