tenorite

[ ten-uh-rahyt ]

noun

1. a mineral, cupric oxide, CuO, occurring in veins of copper in black, minute scales.

tenorite

/ ˈtɛnəˌraɪt /

noun

1. a black mineral found in copper deposits and consisting of copper oxide in the form of either metallic scales or earthy masses. Formula: CuO

Word History and Origins

Origin of tenorite¹

1860–65; named after G. Tenore (died 1861), president of Naples Academy; -ite ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of tenorite¹

C19: named after G. Tenore (died l861), Italian botanist

Example Sentences

Image: Microsoft Tenorite, created by Erin McLaughlin and Wei Huang, is the more traditional style out of the five.

From The Verge

Although the sublimations are generally mixtures, yet sometimes distinct and crystallized chemical or mineral species are found, such as sulphur, sal ammoniac, tenorite, cotunuite, etc.

From Project Gutenberg

Among the oxides, we must enumerate in the first place "tenorite" and feroligiste or micaceous peroxide of iron.

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Tenorite, peroxide of copper, in thin, hexagonal plates or scales, translucent when very thin, dark steel gray, of the cubic system; hard and lustrous.

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Tenorite, for instance, was formerly considered an accidental product of certain eruptions, and I have always found it; but if you visit the fumarole when the acids have had time to transform it, you will no longer see it.

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