greenockite noun.
['gri:nǝkʌɪt] M19.[from Charles Murray Cathcart, Lord Greenock, later Earl Cathcart, (1783-1859), Scot. general + -ITE1.]Mineralogy. Native cadmium sulphide, which crystallizes in the hexagonal system and usu. occurs as a yellow crust on zinc ores.
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