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Webster 1913 Edition

Covellite

{

Co-vel′line

(k?-v?l′l?n)

,

Co-vel′lite

}

(-l?t)

,

Noun.

[After

Covelli

, the discoverer.]

(Min.)

A native sulphide of copper, occuring in masses of a dark blue color; – hence called

indigo copper

.