A blue-grey mineral, typically occurring as hexagonal crystals. It consists of molybdenum disulphide and is the most common ore of molybdenum.
辉钼矿
Example sentencesExamples
The central potassic core normally contains low-grade mineralization consisting of minor chalcopyrite, molybdenite, and pyrite.
Willman reported astrophyllite, biotite, molybdenite, and riebeckite associated with smoky quartz and microcline (variety amazonite) on Mount Kineo at North Cheyenne Canyon.
High on the slopes of Bartlett Mountain, it contained not only gold values but also veinlets of a soft gray mineral - molybdenite.
Molybdenum never occurs as the free element in nature, but is most commonly found in the minerals molybdenite and wulfenite.
At the Redskin mine, molybdenite is found in small cylindrical greisen pipes in the Redskin Granite.
Definition of molybdenite in US English:
molybdenite
nounməˈlɪbdəˌnaɪtməˈlibdəˌnīt
A blue-gray mineral, typically occurring as hexagonal crystals. It consists of molybdenum disulfide and is the most common ore of molybdenum.
辉钼矿
Example sentencesExamples
At the Redskin mine, molybdenite is found in small cylindrical greisen pipes in the Redskin Granite.
The central potassic core normally contains low-grade mineralization consisting of minor chalcopyrite, molybdenite, and pyrite.
High on the slopes of Bartlett Mountain, it contained not only gold values but also veinlets of a soft gray mineral - molybdenite.
Willman reported astrophyllite, biotite, molybdenite, and riebeckite associated with smoky quartz and microcline (variety amazonite) on Mount Kineo at North Cheyenne Canyon.
Molybdenum never occurs as the free element in nature, but is most commonly found in the minerals molybdenite and wulfenite.