COLTAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coltan mean? 

• COLTAN (noun)
  The noun COLTAN has 1 sense:

1. a valuable black mineral combining niobite and tantalite; used in cell phones and computer chips

  Familiarity information: COLTAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLTAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A valuable black mineral combining niobite and tantalite; used in cell phones and computer chips

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

coltan; columbite-tantalite

Hypernyms ("coltan" is a kind of...):

mineral (solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition)