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n. - A silver-white or grey ore of arsenic.

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Usage examples (11)
  • All the miners are agreed in the statement that the gold abounds most at the swells, or highest points of the waves of rock, and that the scarcely less valuable...
  • The underlying slate is filled with bunches of mispickel, not distributed in a sheet, or in any particular order, so far as yet observed, but developed throughout the...
  • A sample of mispickel contains 7 per cent. cobalt.
  • Iron is found combined with sulphur in pyrrhotine and pyrites, and together with arsenic in mispickel.
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