SMALTITE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does smaltite mean? 

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

1. a grey mineral consisting of cobalt arsenide and nickel; an important source of cobalt and nickel

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SMALTITE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A grey mineral consisting of cobalt arsenide and nickel; an important source of cobalt and nickel

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Nouns denoting substances

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

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

Meronyms (substance of "smaltite"):

atomic number 27; Co; cobalt (a hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element; a trace element in plant and animal nutrition)

atomic number 28; Ni; nickel (a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite)