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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Named after

Lord

Greenock

(Min.)

Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation.

See also: greenockite

Greenockite m

See also: Greenockite

greenockite ‎(countable and uncountable, plural greenockites)

(mineralogy) A rare cadmium mineral that consists of cadmium sulfide in crystalline form.