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chromite
[ kroh-mahyt ]
noun
- Chemistry. a salt of chromium in the bivalent state.
- Mineralogy. a cubic mineral, ferrous chromate, Fe 3 Cr 2 O 3 , 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.
chromite
/ ˈkrəʊmaɪt /
noun
- a brownish-black mineral consisting of a ferrous chromic oxide in cubic crystalline form, occurring principally in basic igneous rocks: the only commercial source of chromium and its compounds. Formula: FeCr 2 O 4
- a salt of chromous acid
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Chromite, of which no occurrence of economic importance has yet been discovered in the County or elsewhere in Virginia.
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All chrome is obtained from chromite, which contains 68 per cent.
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Zaratite, zar′a-tīt, n. a hydrous carbonate of nickel, found usually as an incrustation on chromite.
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Masses of chromium ore (chromite) were carried upward with the molten material.
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Often these rocks enclose large segregated masses of granular chromite.
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