Advertisement

Advertisement

ruby silver

noun

, Mineralogy.


ruby silver

noun

  1. another name for proustite pyrargyrite
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


Discover More

Word History and Origins

Origin of ruby silver1

First recorded in 1875–80
Discover More

Example Sentences

These red fluores, to employ the words just used by you, are the ruby silver which you showed us before.

Ru′by-blende, a clear red variety of zinc sulphide: ruby silver; Ru′by-tail, a gold-wasp, or cuckoo-fly.

In some cases ruby silver or gray copper have been reached at forty or fifty feet in depth, assaying over one thousand ounces.

The native grey sulphuret of silver, and the ruby silver ore, both presented the same phenomena.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement


ruby laserruby spinel