NOUN
- a mineral resembling graphite that is valued as the chief source of molybdenum and its compounds
How To Use molybdenite In A Sentence
- True, in the august presence of rhombohedral crystals, retinasphaltic resins, gehlenites, Fassaites, molybdenites, tungstates of manganese, and titanite of zirconium, why, the most facile of tongues may make a slip now and then. Journey to the Interior of the Earth
- The United States produces significant quantities of molybdenite from mines in Colorado, New Mexico, and Idaho. Molybdenum
- Specifically, it is obtained from the processing of the mineral molybdenite (a molybdenum ore) that is found in porphyry copper deposits. Rhenium
- Arsenopyrite, cassiterite, molybdenite, wolframite, uraninite, and several of the common sulfides have all been observed at various locations.
- - A fragment (or xenolith) of well mineralized intrusive within barren granodiorite was observed in drill hole MX07-03; - Disseminated molybdenite has recently been observed in intrusive rocks at the 805 mine level, currently below the Z zone described previously; and, - Strong quartz stockwork with molybdenite in biotite hornfels has been observed adjacent to the Ethel zone (Drill Hole MX07-01). FinanzNachrichten.de: Aktuelle Nachrichten
- Closeups of cobaltite, top, a rare ore of cobalt, and molybdenite, bottom, the main ore of molybdenum. LME to Broaden Metals Reach
- Molybdenum was extracted from the granite in Baltschieder during the second world war, from a unique occurrence where molybdenum is present in granite as molybdenite. Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn, Switzerland
- Rhenium does not form minerals of its own, but it does occur as a trace element in columbite, tantalite and molybdenite. Rhenium
- Molybdenum was discovered by the Swedish scientist, Peter Hjelm in 1781, three years after Carl Scheele proposed that a previously unknown element could be found in the mineral molybdenite. Molybdenum
- The central potassic core normally contains low-grade mineralization consisting of minor chalcopyrite, molybdenite, and pyrite.