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co⋅vel⋅lite

  [koh-vel-ahyt, koh-vuh-lahyt]
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–noun
a mineral, copper sulfide, CuS, indigo in color and usually occurring as a massive coating on other copper minerals.
Origin:
1840–50; named after Nicolò Covelli (1790–1829), Italian mineralogist who found it; see -ite 1
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co·vel·lite   (kō-věl'īt', kō'və-līt')   
n.  A lustrous indigo-blue mineral, CuS, an important ore of copper.

[After Nicolò Covelli (1790-1829), Italian mineralogist.]
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covellite

a sulfide mineral that is a copper ore, cupric sulfide (CuS). It typically occurs as an alteration product of other copper sulfide minerals (chalcopyrites, chalcocite, and bornite) present in the same deposits, as at Leogang, Austria; Kawau Island, N.Z.; and Butte, Mont., U.S. Covellite forms crystals that belong to the hexagonal system. For detailed physical properties, see sulfide mineral (table)

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