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Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
Tetradymite
Britannica 11thTETRADYMITE, a mineral consisting of bismuth telluride and sulphide, Bi2Te2S, also known as " telluric bismuth." Sometimes sulphur is absent and the formula is then Bi2Tes; traces of selenium are usually present. Crystals are rhombohedral, but are rarely disti ...
Tetrahedrite
Britannica 11thTETRAHEDRITE, a mineral consisting typically of copper sulph-antimonite, CujSbSj, but often of complex composition. The copper is usually isomorphously replaced by variable amounts of silver, iron, zinc, mercury, lead or cobalt, and the antimony by arsenic or