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STIBNITE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A soft grey mineral; the chief ore of antimony
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("stibnite" is a kind of...):
mineral (solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition)
Meronyms (substance of "stibnite"):
antimony; atomic number 51; Sb (a metallic element having four allotropic forms; used in a wide variety of alloys; found in stibnite)