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Definition of Crocoite
1. n. Lead chromate occuring in crystals of a bright hyacinth red color; -- called also red lead ore.
Definition of Crocoite
1. Noun. (minerology) A rare red mineral; lead chromate, PbCrO4. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Crocoite
1. a mineral [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crocoite
Literary usage of Crocoite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Descriptive Mineralogy by William Shirley Bayley (1917)
"crocoite Crystals with « P crocoite is bright hyacinth-red, 3p«. 301 (*); P«,
To1 (*); oP, and is translucent. Its streak is orange-yellow. ..."
2. A System of Mineralogy: Descriptive Mineralogy, Comprising the Most Recent by James Dwight Dana, George Jarvis Brush (1869)
"The name crocoite is from mí«,-, ... and Breithaupt, in 1841, to crocoite ...
the species was not one instituted by Hausmann, we allow crocoite to stand. ..."
3. Mineralogy: An Introduction to the Scientific Study of Minerals by Henry Alexander Miers (1902)
"The only chromate of any importance among minerals is crocoite (Germ. ...
crocoite is of a beautiful hyacinth-red (which loses its brilliancy on exposure to ..."
4. Complete Mineral Catalog by Warren Mathews Foote (1909)
"2402 Borax .40 182 Unit prism m (110), prism/ (120) and pyramid t (111), similar
to fig. 2465 crocoite .75 183 Unit prism m (110), ..."
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