bournonite

[ bawr-nuh-nahyt, bohr-, boor- ]

noun

, Mineralogy.

1. a sulfide of lead, antimony, and copper, PbCuSbS 3 , occurring in gray to black crystals or granular masses.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bournonite¹

1795–1805; named after Count J. L. de Bournon (died 1825), French mineralogist; -ite ¹

Example Sentences

Bournonite; apatite on muscovite; natural zircon in a spray of colors; dozens more minerals he cannot name.

From Literature

Antimony, however, occurs chiefly as the sulphide, stibnite; to a much smaller extent it occurs in combination with other metallic sulphides in the minerals wolfsbergite, boulangerite, bournonite, pyrargyrite, &c.

From Project Gutenberg

BOURNONITE, a mineral species, a sulphantimonite of lead and copper with the formula PbCuSbS3.

From Project Gutenberg