English

Noun

kombatite ‎(uncountable)

1. (mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic light yellow mineral containing chlorine, lead, oxygen, and vanadium.
   • 1986, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, page 520:

     Kombatite is bright yellow in color with a light yellow streak.

   • 2004, Gabi Schneider, The roadside geology of Namibia, page 24:

     However, later a large number of new minerals were discovered from the manganese and iron ores, such as kombatite, asisite, johninnesite and amaraite.

   • 2011, S V Krivovichev, Minerals as Advanced Materials II, page 322:

     In ordered structures, vacancies in the PbO blocks have the form of a square (in symesite), or a double square (butterfly-like vacancies in kombatite and sahlinite).

References

• kombatite Barthelmy, David (accessed 29 August 2016) Webmineral Mineralogy Database