Definitions for chromite

chromite chro·mite

Spelling: [kroh-mahyt]
IPA: /ˈkroʊ maɪt/

Chromite is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 358 anagrams from letters in chromite (cehimort).

Definitions for chromite

noun

  1. Chemistry. a salt of chromium in the bivalent state.
  2. Mineralogy. a cubic mineral, ferrous chromate, Fe 3 Cr 2 O 3 , 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.

Origin of chromite

1830-40; chrom(ium) or chrom(ate) + -ite1

Examples for chromite

Minute percentages of chromite, iron, manganese, and other substances are often responsible for the colors in these stones.

chromite moves from two principal sources; tungsten also from two.

It is not of a uniform quality, being largely a spotted ore; that is chromite mixed with serpentine ganue.

In this zone there are also fifteen or more other outcroppings of chromite, most of them obscured by broken ore and rock debris.

chromite is a common minor constituent of basic igneous rocks of the peridotite and pyroxenite type.

Small amounts of chromite are mined in Greece, India, Japan, and other countries.

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

The principal chrome mineral is chromite, an oxide of chromium and iron.

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

Katamorphic processes give the important values to chromite deposits.

Word Value for chromite
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15

Words with friends

16

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