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chromite

/kroh-mahyt/US // ˈkroʊ maɪt //UK // (ˈkrəʊmaɪt) //

铬铁矿,铬矿,铬酸盐,铬矿石

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Chemistry. a salt of chromium in the bivalent state.
    • : Mineralogy. a cubic mineral, ferrous chromate, Fe3Cr2O3, usually with much of the ferrous iron and aluminum replaced by magnesium, and some of the chromium by ferric iron: the principal ore of chromium.

Examples

  • Chromite, of which no occurrence of economic importance has yet been discovered in the County or elsewhere in Virginia.

  • All chrome is obtained from chromite, which contains 68 per cent.

  • Zaratite, zar′a-tīt, n. a hydrous carbonate of nickel, found usually as an incrustation on chromite.

  • Masses of chromium ore (chromite) were carried upward with the molten material.

  • Often these rocks enclose large segregated masses of granular chromite.