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Definition of proustite

Proustite
Proustite Proust"ite, n. [From the French chemist, J. L. Proust.] (Min.) A sulphide of arsenic and silver of a beautiful cochineal-red color, occurring in rhombohedral crystals, and also massive; ruby silver.
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Red horse. (Zo["o]l.) (a) Any large American red fresh-water sucker, especially Moxostoma macrolepidotum and allied species. (b) See the Note under Drumfish. Red lead. (Chem) See under Lead, and Minium. Red-lead ore. (Min.) Same as Crocoite. Red liquor (Dyeing), a solution consisting essentially of aluminium acetate, used as a mordant in the fixation of dyestuffs on vegetable fiber; -- so called because used originally for red dyestuffs. Called also red mordant. Red maggot (Zo["o]l.), the larva of the wheat midge. Red manganese. (Min.) Same as Rhodochrosite. Red man, one of the American Indians; -- so called from his color. Red maple (Bot.), a species of maple (Acer rubrum). See Maple. Red mite. (Zo["o]l.) See Red spider, below. Red mulberry (Bot.), an American mulberry of a dark purple color (Morus rubra). Red mullet (Zo["o]l.), the surmullet. See Mullet. Red ocher (Min.), a soft earthy variety of hematite, of a reddish color. Red perch (Zo["o]l.), the rosefish. Red phosphorus. (Chem.) See under Phosphorus. Red pine (Bot.), an American species of pine (Pinus resinosa); -- so named from its reddish bark. Red precipitate. See under Precipitate. Red Republican (European Politics), originally, one who maintained extreme republican doctrines in France, -- because a red liberty cap was the badge of the party; an extreme radical in social reform. [Cant] Red ribbon, the ribbon of the Order of the Bath in England. Red sanders. (Bot.) See Sanders. Red sandstone. (Geol.) See under Sandstone. Red scale (Zo["o]l.), a scale insect (Aspidiotus aurantii) very injurious to the orange tree in California and Australia. Red silver (Min.), an ore of silver, of a ruby-red or reddish black color. It includes proustite, or light red silver, and pyrargyrite, or dark red silver. Red snapper (Zo["o]l.), a large fish (Lutlanus aya or Blackfordii) abundant in the Gulf of Mexico and about the Florida reefs. Red snow, snow colored by a mocroscopic unicellular alga (Protococcus nivalis) which produces large patches of scarlet on the snows of arctic or mountainous regions. Red softening (Med.) a form of cerebral softening in which the affected parts are red, -- a condition due either to infarction or inflammation. Red spider (Zo["o]l.), a very small web-spinning mite (Tetranychus telarius) which infests, and often destroys, plants of various kinds, especially those cultivated in houses and conservatories. It feeds mostly on the under side of the leaves, and causes them to turn yellow and die. The adult insects are usually pale red. Called also red mite. Red squirrel (Zo["o]l.), the chickaree. Red tape, the tape used in public offices for tying up documents, etc.; hence, official formality and delay.

Meaning of proustite from wikipedia

- Proustite is a sulfosalt mineral consisting of silver sulf****nide, Ag3****3, known also as ruby blende, light red silver, ****nic-silver blende or ruby...
- allied to, and isomorphous with, the corresponding sulf****nide known as proustite or light red silver ore. Ruby silver or red silver ore (German Rotgültigerz)...
- Pollucite Polyhalite Poudretteite Powellite Prehnite Prismatine Prosopite Proustite Psilomelane Pumpellyite Chlorastrolite (var.) Purpurite Pyrite Pyrargyrite...
- illustrated by this specimen of proustite, sulfosalt minerals are often deeply colored. A3BX3 type Pyrargyrite Ag3SbS3 Proustite Ag3****3 Tetrahedrite Cu12Sb4S13...
- tellurantimony, coloradoite, krennerite, native ****nic, native gold, proustite, rhodochrosite, ****nopyrite, sphalerite, tetrahedrite, calaverite, tellurobi****hite...
- so-called "ruby silvers", pearceite Cu(Ag,Cu)6Ag9As2S11, pyrargyrite Ag3SbS3, proustite Ag3****3 and miargyrite AgSbS2. It was discovered in 1896 and named after...
- Polyhalite Portlandite Posnjakite Poudretteite Povondraite Powellite Prehnite Proustite Pseudobrookite Pseudomalachite Pseudowollastonite Pumpellyite (group of...
- enrichment. It occurs in ****ociation with native silver, pyrargyrite, proustite, polybasite, stephanite, aguilarite, galena, chalcopyrite, sphalerite...
- chlorargyrite ("horn silver," AgCl), polybasite (Ag, Cu)16Sb2S11), and proustite (Ag3****3). Silver mainly occurs as a contaminant in chalcopyrite and galena...
- Depending on the locality it is found accompanied by ****nic, tennantite, proustite, chalcopyrite, galenite, and baryte (in the type locality); by kutinaite...