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ruby silver
ruby silver
noun
- another name for proustite pyrargyrite
Word History and Origins
Origin of ruby silver1
Example Sentences
Ru′by-blende, a clear red variety of zinc sulphide: ruby silver; Ru′by-tail, a gold-wasp, or cuckoo-fly.—adj.
To the foregoing must still be added the many tons of ruby, silver, polybasite, etc., shipped just as it came from the Poorman mine,—enough, at a rough estimate, to increase the total to fifteen hundred thousand, at least.
For example, pyrites, galena, and ruby silver are reckoned in the category of compound minerals, whereas we say that metallic 'earths' or stony 'earths' or 'earths' mingled with juices, are mixed minerals; or similarly, stones in which metal or solidified juices adhere, or which contain 'earth.'
Changed the reference for Proustite on page 626, and the references for Pyrargyrite, for Ruby Silver, for Silver, for Silver Glance and for Silver Ores on page 627, from "109" to "108."
These red fluores, to employ the words just used by you, are the ruby silver which you showed us before.
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