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covellite

[ koh-vel-ahyt, koh-vuh-lahyt ]

noun

  1. a mineral, copper sulfide, CuS, indigo in color and usually occurring as a massive coating on other copper minerals.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of covellite1

1840–50; named after Nicolò Covelli (1790–1829), Italian mineralogist who found it; -ite 1

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Example Sentences

Copper-glance readily alters to other minerals, such as malachite, covellite, melaconite and chalcopyrite.

Cupric sulphide, CuS, occurs in nature as the mineral covellite.

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