Word Meanings - MISPICKEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Arsenical iron pyrites; arsenopyrite.

Related words: (words related to MISPICKEL)

• ARSENICAL
  Of or pertaining to, or containing, arsenic; as, arsenical vapor; arsenical wall papers. Arsenical silver, an ore of silver containing arsenic.
• PYRITES
  A name given to a number of metallic minerals, sulphides of iron, copper, cobalt, nickel, and tin, of a white or yellowish color. Note: The term was originally applied to the mineral pyrite, or iron pyrites, in allusion to its giving sparks when
• ARSENOPYRITE
  A mineral of a tin-white color and metallic luster, containing arsenic, sulphur, and iron; -- also called arsenical pyrites and mispickel.