petzite

English

Etymology

From Petz +‎ -ite, after chemist W. Petz.

Noun

petzite (countable and uncountable, plural petzites)

  1. (mineralogy) A soft, steel-gray isometric telluride mineral generally deposited by hydrothermal activity and usually associated with rare tellurium and gold minerals.

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