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petzite

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
pet-zite
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A soft, steel-gray isometric telluride mineral generally deposited by hydrothermal activity and usually associated with rare tellurium and gold minerals.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From Petz + -ite, after chemist W. Petz.

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

petzites (plural)

Questions

What does petzite mean?
A soft, steel-gray isometric telluride mineral generally deposited by hydrothermal activity and usually associated with rare tellurium and gold minerals.
Where does petzite come from?
From Petz + -ite, after chemist W. Petz.

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