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bournonitenoun
A sulfosalt mineral, a sulfantimonite of lead and copper.
Etymology: after French crystallographer and mineralogist Jacques Louis de Bournon (1751–1825).
Webster Dictionary
Bournonitenoun
a mineral of a steel-gray to black color and metallic luster, occurring crystallized, often in twin crystals shaped like cogwheels (wheel ore), also massive. It is a sulphide of antimony, lead, and copper
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Bournonite
Bournonite is a sulfosalt mineral species, a sulfantimonite of lead and copper with the formula PbCuSbS3. It was first mentioned by Philip Rashleigh in 1797 as an ore of antimony and was more completely described in 1804 by French crystallographer and mineralogist Jacques Louis, Comte de Bournon, after whom it was named. The name given by Bournon himself was endellione, since used in the form endellionite, after the locality in Cornwall where the mineral was first found. The crystals are orthorhombic, and are generally tabular in habit owing to the predominance of the basal pinacoid; numerous smooth bright faces are often developed on the edges and corners of the crystals. Usually, however, the crystals are twinned, the twin-plane being a face of the prism; the angle between the faces of this prism being nearly a right angIe, the twinning gives rise to cruciform groups and when it is often repeated the group has the appearance of a cog-wheel, hence the name Rdelerz of the Kapnik miners. The repeated twinning gives rise to twin-lamellae, which may be detected on the fractured surfaces, even of the massive material. It is a mineral in medium temperature hydrothermal vein deposits. It commonly occurs with galena, tetrahedrite, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, stibnite, zinkenite, siderite, quartz, rhodochrosite, dolomite and barite.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Bournonite in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Bournonite in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
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