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UK
/sˈɛɹəsˌaɪt/
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NOUN
- a mineral consisting of lead carbonate that is an important source of lead
How To Use cerussite In A Sentence
- The ore, a mixture of ‘psilomelane’ and pyrolusite with much manganiferous limonite, contains masses of cerussite.
- Hemimorphite, cerussite, willemite, and chrysocolla occur in all the mines.
- Those who went had five stops on the trip and collected celestine, ulexite, malachite, duftite, alunite, rosasite, barite, cerussite, smithsonite, and wulfenite.
- Although anglesite and cerussite are found at Loudville, the two most sought-after minerals are pyromorphite and wulfenite.
- He reported finding wulfenite, cerussite, anglesite, plattnerite, and massicot as alteration products of galena in three pegmatites at Saint Peters Dome.
- Carbonates of many of the metals, such as carbonate of lead (cerussite), carbonate of iron (chalybite), carbonates of copper A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
- The cerussite crystals are bright and glassy and range from colorless to pale gray.
- The ore, a mixture of ‘psilomelane’ and pyrolusite with much manganiferous limonite, contains masses of cerussite.
- Cerussite (lead carbonate) and anglesite (lead sulphate) are mined in some places in the upper part of sulphide deposits, and supply a small fraction of the world's output. The Economic Aspect of Geology
- Morocco continues to astound with its wealth of vanadinite, azurite, cerussite, and erythrite.