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Definition of Wulfenite

Wulfenite
Wulfenite Wul"fen*ite, n. [So named after F. X. Wulfen, an Australian mineralogist.] (Min.) Native lead molybdate occurring in tetragonal crystals, usually tabular, and of a bright orange-yellow to red, gray, or brown color; -- also called yellow lead ore.

Meaning of Wulfenite from wikipedia

- Wulfenite is a lead molybdate mineral with the formula PbMoO4. It often occurs as thin tabular crystals with a bright orange-red to yellow-orange color...
- An example of the tetragonal crystals, wulfenite...
- which it is often found. Though molybdenum is found in such minerals as wulfenite (PbMoO4) and powellite (CaMoO4), the main commercial source is molybdenite...
- "View Do****ent". www.azleg.gov. Retrieved 2020-01-29. "Featured Mineral: Wulfenite". Arizona Mining, Mineral and Natural Resources Education Museum. 2019-08-20...
- the emission of light when an object is cooled (an example of this is wulfenite) Photoluminescence, a result of the absorption of photons Fluorescence...
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- Powellite (calcium molybdate: CaMoO4) Rheniite (rhenium sulfide: ReS2) Wulfenite (lead molybdate: PbMoO4) Warr, L.N. (2021). "IMA–CNMNC approved mineral...
- ****ociation with the lead sulfide, galena. Other ****ociated minerals include wulfenite, limonite, and barite. It was originally discovered in Mexico by the Spanish...
- limonitic matrix is the host for bi-pyramidal, brownish-red crystals of wulfenite Crystallized groutite scattered about a hollow vug In a vug of limonite...