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chro⋅mite

  [kroh-mahyt]
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–noun
1. Chemistry. a salt of chromium in the bivalent state.
2. Mineralogy. a cubic mineral, ferrous chromate, Fe3Cr2O3, usually with much of the ferrous iron and aluminum replaced by magnesium, and some of the chromium by ferric iron: the principal ore of chromium.
Origin:
1830–40; chrom(ium) or chrom(ate) + -ite 1
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chro·mite   (krō'mīt')   
n.  A widely distributed black to brownish-black chromium ore, FeCr2O4.
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