ARGYRODITE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A rare steel-grey mineral consisting of silver and germanium and sulfur

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Nouns denoting substances

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

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

Meronyms (substance of "argyrodite"):

atomic number 32; Ge; germanium (a brittle grey crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors; occurs in germanite and argyrodite)

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