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A gray mineral consisting of cobalt arsenide and nickel
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smaltite
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Smaltite is a variety of the mineral skutterudite consisting of cobalt iron nickel arsenide : (Co,Fe,Ni)As. Smaltite crystallizes in the cubic system with the same hemihedral symmetry as pyrite ; crystals have usually the form of cubes or cubo-octahedra, ...
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n. (context mineralogy English) A variety of skutterudite with the chemical formula (Co,Fe,Ni)As 2 , crystallize in the cubic system.
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n. a gray mineral consisting of cobalt arsenide and nickel; an important source of cobalt and nickel
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Smaltine \Smalt"ine\, Smaltite \Smalt"ite\, n. [See Smalt .] (Min.) A tin-white or gray mineral of metallic luster. It is an arsenide of cobalt, nickel, and iron. Called also speiskobalt .
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Its chief ores are smaltite and cobaltite, which are arsenides of cobalt, with more or less iron, nickel, and copper.