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Definition: Stibnite |
StibniteNoun1. A soft gray mineral; the chief ore of antimony. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Chemistry | Lead-grey mineral, with a brillant metallic luster, differing from galena by ease of fusion and often containing gold and silver. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | An orthorhombic mineral, Sb2 S3 ; dimorphous with metastibnite; soft; metallic; may contain gold and silver; occurs in massive forms and in vertically striated prisms having perfect cleavage, in low-temperature veins and around hot springs; the chief source of antimony. Syn:antimonite; antimony glance; gray antimony; stibium.See also:stibnium. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Stibnite |
| English words defined with "stibnite": Antimonite, antimony, atomic number 51 ♦ Sb, Stibium. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "stibnite": antimony crudum ♦ fibrous structure ♦ knobellite. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
stibnite | 6 |
idaho stibnite | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "stibnite"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | stibnit (antimonite, antimonyglance, gray antimony, stibium), antimonit (antimonite), antimonglans (antimonite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | stibniet (antimonite, antimonyglance, gray antimony, stibium), antimoonglans (antimonite), antimoniet (antimonite, antimonyglance, gray antimony, stibium). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | antimonihohde (antimonite, antimonyglance, gray antimony, stibium). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | stibnite (stibium), stibine (stibium), antimonite. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Stibnit (antimonite), Grauspiessglanz (antimonite), Grauspießglanz (antimonite, antimonyglance, gray antimony, stibium), Antimonit (antimonite), Antimonglanz (antimonite, antimonyglance, gray antimony, stibium). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | στιβνίτης (antimonite, antimonyglance, gray antimony, stibium), αντιμονίτης (antimonite, antimonyglance, gray antimony, stibium). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | stibnite (antimonite, antimonyglance, gray antimony, stibium), stibina (antimonite, antimonyglance, gray antimony, stibium), antimonite (antimonite, antimonyglance, gray antimony, stibium). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ibnitestay estibina (antimonite, antimonyglance, gray antimony, stibium), antimonite (antimonite, antimonyglance, gray antimony, stibium). (various references) sulfuro de antimonio (antimonite, antimonyglance, gray antimony, stibium), estibina (antimonite, antimonyglance, gray antimony, stibium), antimonita (antimonite). (various references) stibnit (antimonite, antimonyglance, gray antimony, stibium), spetsglans (antimonite, antimonyglance, gray antimony, stibium), antimonit (antimonite, antimonyglance, gray antimony, stibium), antimonglans (antimonite, antimonyglance, gray antimony, stibium). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "stibnite": stibnites. (additional references) | |
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"Stibnite" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: staybrite. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "stibnite" (pronounced 'Stib"nite'): Belemnite, Bornite, Conite, Crinite, finite, Galenite, kainite, Konite, mannite, Ornithichnite, Ornithoidichnite, Prefinite, Pycnite, Pyrolignite, Sauroidichnite, Sonnite, Sternite, Sunnite, Urosternite, Yenite. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-i-i-n-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: stibine, tiniest. | |
-2 letters: binits, bitten, seniti, sitten. | |
-3 letters: bents, bines, binit, bints, bites, bitts, inset, intis, neist, netts, nisei, nites, senti, stein, stint, tents, tines, tints, titis. | |
-4 letters: bens, bent, best, bets, bine, bins, bint, bise, bite, bits, bitt, ibis, inti, nebs, nest, nets, nett, nibs, nisi, nite, nits, sent, sett, sine, site, snib. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-i-i-n-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: stibnites. | |
+3 letters: antiobesity, buttinskies. | |
+4 letters: bioscientist, biosynthetic, notabilities, obstetrician, resubmitting, retributions, tenabilities, tunabilities. | |
+5 letters: antidiabetics, antiobesities, antiobscenity, bioscientists, cyberneticist, debilitations, exhibitionist, extensibility, instabilities, liberationist, obliterations, obstetricians, rehabilitants, rentabilities, sinterability, substantivize, tangibilities, undistributed. | |
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