Definitions for siderites

siderites sid·er·ite

Spelling: [sid-uh-rahyt]
IPA: /ˈsɪd əˌraɪt/

Siderites is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 289 anagrams from letters in siderites (deeiirsst).

Definitions for siderites

noun

  1. Also called chalybite. a common mineral, iron carbonate, FeCO 3 , usually occurring in yellowish to deep-brown cleavable masses: a minor ore of iron.
  2. a meteorite consisting almost entirely of metallic minerals.

Origin of siderites

1570-80, in sense “loadstone”; 1845-50 for def 1; sider- + -ite1; in obsolete sense, variant of sider

Examples for siderites

This compound occurs in nature as siderite, and is a valuable ore.

This is one of the ordinary stony meteorites, and is thus contrasted with the Rowton siderite which we have just been considering.

This siderite is specially interesting on account of its distinctly metallic character.

Their principal iron mineral is hematite, although the English ores also contain considerable iron carbonate or siderite.

Quartzite (instead of limestone) is an unusual locus of replacement ores, and siderite is an unusual gangue.

siderite, or spathic iron ore, FeCO3, crystallizes in the rhombohedral system and contains 48.28% of iron.

Carbonate of Iron, or siderite, occurs in a few localities, the ore produced in Ohio being almost wholly of this kind.

The Bilbao ores consist mainly of siderite, which near the surface has altered to large bodies of oxide minerals.

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