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Definition of Cerussite

Cerussite
Cerusite Ce"ru*site, Cerussite Ce"rus*site, n. (Min.) Native lead carbonate; a mineral occurring in colorless, white, or yellowish transparent crystals, with an adamantine, also massive and compact.

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- Cerussite (also known as lead carbonate or white lead ore) is a mineral consisting of lead carbonate (PbCO3), and is an important ore of lead. The name...
- cerussite gem, weighing 898 carats (179.6 g). It is currently part of the collection of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto. The raw cerussite was...
- practical uses, despite its toxicity. It occurs naturally as the mineral cerussite. Like all metal carbonates, lead(II) carbonate adopts a dense, highly...
- hydrothermal veins in ****ociation with sphalerite, marcasite, chalcopyrite, cerussite, anglesite, dolomite, calcite, quartz, barite, and fluorite. It is also...
- conditions. It also occurs as a result of mine fires. It is ****ociated with cerussite, galena, litharge, m****icot, mimetite, native lead, and wulfenite. It...
- secondary mineral in oxidized hydrothermal lead deposits. It occurs with cerussite, anglesite, smithsonite, hemimorphite, vanadinite, pyromorphite, mimetite...
- Chlorargyrite is water-insoluble. It occurs ****ociated with native silver, cerussite, iodargyrite, atacamite, malachite, jarosite and various iron–manganese...
- Carletonite Carnallite C****iterite Catapleiite Cavansite Celestite Ceruleite Cerussite Chabazite Chalcopyrite Chambersite Charlesite Charoite Childrenite Chiolite...
- oxidized near-surface ore, with large amounts of lead and native silver. Cerussite was the most common ore in the upper layers, with argentiferous galena...
- compounds, generally in the form of sulfides such as galena (lead sulfide) or cerussite (lead carbonate). So the primary production of silver requires the smelting...