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Definition of aikinite

aikinite
Needle Nee"dle, n. [OE. nedle, AS. n?dl; akin to D. neald, OS. n[=a]dla, G. nadel, OHG. n[=a]dal, n[=a]dala, Icel. n[=a]l, Sw. n[*a]l, Dan. naal, and also to G. n["a]hen to sew, OHG. n[=a]jan, L. nere to spin, Gr. ?, and perh. to E. snare: cf. Gael. & Ir. snathad needle, Gael. snath thread, G. schnur string, cord.] 1. A small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one end, with an eye to receive a thread, -- used in sewing. --Chaucer. Note: In some needles(as for sewing machines) the eye is at the pointed end, but in ordinary needles it is at the blunt end. 2. See Magnetic needle, under Magnetic. 3. A slender rod or wire used in knitting; a knitting needle; also, a hooked instrument which carries the thread or twine, and by means of which knots or loops are formed in the process of netting, knitting, or crocheting. 4. (Bot.) One of the needle-shaped secondary leaves of pine trees. See Pinus. 5. Any slender, pointed object, like a needle, as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc. Dipping needle. See under Dipping. Needle bar, the reciprocating bar to which the needle of a sewing machine is attached. Needle beam (Arch.), to shoring, the horizontal cross timber which goes through the wall or a pier, and upon which the weight of the wall rests, when a building is shored up to allow of alterations in the lower part. Needle furze (Bot.), a prickly leguminous plant of Western Europe; the petty whin (Genista Anglica). Needle gun, a firearm loaded at the breech with a cartridge carrying its own fulminate, which is exploded by driving a slender needle, or pin, into it. Needle loom (Weaving), a loom in which the weft thread is carried through the shed by a long eye-pointed needle instead of by a shuttle. Needle ore (Min.), acicular bismuth; a sulphide of bismuth, lead, and copper occuring in acicular crystals; -- called also aikinite. Needle shell (Zo["o]l.), a sea urchin. Needle spar (Min.), aragonite. Needle telegraph, a telegraph in which the signals are given by the deflections of a magnetic needle to the right or to the left of a certain position. Sea needle (Zo["o]l.), the garfish.

Meaning of aikinite from wikipedia

- Aikinite is a sulfide mineral of lead, copper and bi****h with formula Pb Cu Bi S3. It forms black to grey or reddish brown acicular orthorhombic crystals...
- dense. Bi****hinite forms a series with the lead, copper, bi****h mineral aikinite (PbCuBiS3). It occurs in hydrothermal veins with tourmaline-bearing copper...
- Afwillite Agardite Agate Agrellite Agrinierite Aguilarite Aheylite Ahlfeldite Aikinite Aiolosite Ajoite Akaganéite Akaogiite Akatoreite Akdalaite Åkermanite Akhtenskite...
- Gratonite Pb9As4S15 A2BX3 type Bournonite PbCuSbS3 Seligmannite PbCu****3 Aikinite PbCuBiS3 ABX2 type Boulangerite Pb5Sb4S11 Matildite AgBiS2 Smithite Ag****2...
- Sverdlovsk Oblast. The following minerals were discovered at the deposit: aikinite (1789), vauquelinite (1819), c****edanneite (1988), crocoite (1766), pyrophyllite...
- Avd Ahrensite Ahr Amblygonite Aby Argentopentlandite Apn Avdoninite Avn Aikinite Aik Ambrinoite Amb Argentopyrite Agpy Averievite Avv Aiolosite Aio Ameghinite...
- nearly the same empirical formulas. They are both of the bi****hinite - aikinite series. Salzburgite was named after the region in which it was found, Salzburg...
- base metal significantly exceeds impurities. Acicular bi****h glance — Aikinite. Antimony glance — Antimonite (synonim: Stibnite). ****nicglance — ****nolamprite...
- American philosopher All pages with titles containing Aikin Aickin, surname Aikinite, sulfide mineral of lead, copper and bi****h with formula PbCuBiS3 Aiken...
- the "stibnite" chains, resembling the pattern observed in the bi****hite-aikinite homologous series. Earlier observations pointed to compositional variations...