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argyrodite's Usage Examples:

Other pairs of isomorphous argentiferous minerals are: the cubic polybasite, 9Ag2S Sb2S3, and pearceite, 9Ag2S As2S3; and the germanium minerals argyrodite, 4Ag 2 S GeS2, and canfieldite, 4Ag 2 S (Sn, Ge) S2.

It may be obtained from argyrodite by heating the mineral in a current of hydrogen; or by heating the dioxide to redness with carbon.

The element is of extremely rare occurrence, being met with only in argyrodite and, to a very small extent, in euxenite.

It was discovered in 1886 by C. Winkler in argyrodite, a mineral found at Freiberg in Saxony.

argyrodite's Meaning':

a rare steel-grey mineral consisting of silver and germanium and sulfur

Synonyms:

mineral, germanium, Ge, atomic number 32,

Antonyms:

organic,