SMALTITE  , a See also:

• MINERAL

mineral consisting of See also:

• COBALT (symbol Co, atomic weight 59)

cobalt diarsenide (CoAs2) . It crystallizes in the cubic See also:

• SYSTEM

system with the same hemihedral symmetry as See also:

• PYRITES

pyrites; crystals have usually the See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of cubes or cubo-octahedra, but are imperfectly See also:

• DEVELOPED

developed and of some-what rare occurrence . More often the mineral is found as compact or granular masses . The See also:

• COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour is See also:

• TIN (Lat.- stannum, whence the chemical symbol " Sn "; atomic weight =117.6, 0=16)

tin-See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

white to See also:

• STEEL, FLORA ANNIE (1847– )

steel-See also:

• GREY, CHARLES GREY, 2ND EARL (1764-1845)
• GREY, HENRY GREY, 3RD EARL (1802-1894)
• GREY, LADY JANE (1537-1554)
• GREY, SIR EDWARD
• GREY, SIR GEORGE (1812–1898)

grey, with a metallic lustre; the streak is greyish See also:

• BLACK
• BLACK, ADAM (1784-1874)
• BLACK, JEREMIAH SULLIVAN (1810–1883)
• BLACK, WILLIAM (1841-1898)

black . Hardness 51; specific gravity 6.5 . The cobalt is partly replaced by See also:

• IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron and See also:

• NICKEL
• NICKEL (symbol Ni, atomic weight 58.68 (0=16))

nickel, and as the latter increases in amount there is a passage to the isomorphous See also:

• SPECIES

species chloanthite (NiAs2) . It occurs in See also:

• VEINS

veins with ores of cobalt, nickel, See also:

• COPPER (symbol Cu, atomic weight 63.1, H=1, or 63.6, O = 16)

copper and See also:

• SILVER

silver: the best known locality is See also:

• SCHNEEBERG

Schneeberg in See also:

• SAXONY
• SAXONY (Ger. Provinz Sachsen)

Saxony . The name smaltite was given by F . S . See also:

• BEUDANT, FRANCOIS SULPICE (1787—1850)

Beudant, in 1832, because the mineral was used in the preparation of smalt for producing a See also:

• BLUE (common in different forms to most European languages)

blue colour in See also:

• PORCELAIN

porcelain and See also:

• GLASS
• GLASS (O.E. glees, cf. Ger. Glas, perhaps derived from an old Teutonic root gla-, a variant of glo-, having the general sense of shining, cf. " glare," " glow ")
• GLASS, STAINED

glass . (L . J .