millerite

See also: Millerite and millérite

English

Etymology

From Miller +‎ -ite, from British mineralogist William Hallowes Miller.

Noun

millerite (plural millerites)

  1. (geology) A nickel sulfide mineral, NiS, that occurs as hairlike tufts.

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