Crossword-Solution: ANGLESITE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Anglesite | n. | A native sulphate of lead. It occurs in white or yellowish transparent, prismatic crystals. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ANGLESITE | anagram | GELATINES |
We have 4 clues for the answer “ANGLESITE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A minor ore of lead. | 1 answer |
| white or grey secondary mineral | 1 answer |
| lead ore | 3 answers |
| Leading | 104 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with ANGLESITE (5)
For example, the mineral anglesite (lead sulphate) is a compound of lead, sulphur, and oxygen; by carefully heating it with charcoal the oxygen is taken away by the charcoal, and a regulus of lead sulphide remains.
Carbonate (cerussite), sulphate (anglesite), and phosphate (pyromorphite) of lead also occur as ores, but in much smaller quantities.
Cerussite (lead carbonate) and anglesite (lead sulphate) are mined in some places in the upper part of sulphide deposits, and supply a small fraction of the world's output.
Cerussite, anglesite and pyromorphite usually result from the oxidation of galena, the sulphate being usually an intermediate state in the oxidation to the carbonate.
Below the gossan were great masses of cerussite, anglesite, cuprite, and malachite, with abundant cerargyrite, embolite, and iodyrite.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1952).