Word Meanings - SPERRYLITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An arsenide of platinum occuring in grains and minute isometric crystals of tin-white color. It is found near Sudbury, Ontario Canada, and is the only known compound of platinum occuring in nature.

• Whitewasher
  One who whitewashes.
• WHITEBLAZE
  See White-face.
• Colorimeter
  An instrument for measuring the depth of the color of anything, especially of a liquid, by comparison with a standard liquid.
• WHITEPERSON
  A person of the Caucasian race (6 Fed. Rep. 256). In the time of slavery in the United States white person was generally construed as a person without admixture of colored blood. In various statutes and decisions in different States since 1865 white per
• Foundationless
  Having no foundation.
• Platinum
  A metallic element, intermediate in value between silver and gold, occurring native or alloyed with other metals, also as the platinum arsenide (sperrylite). It is heavy tin-white metal which is ductile and malleable, but very infusible, and chara
• White-eye
  Any one of several species of small Old World singing of the genus Zosterops, as Zosterops palpebrosus of India, and Z. c/rulescens of Australia. The eyes are encircled by a ring of white feathers, whence the name. Called also bush creeper, and wh
• Whitener
  One who, or that which, whitens; a bleacher; a blancher; a whitewasher.
• White-water
  A dangerous disease of sheep.
• WHITEEAR
  The wheatear.
• Colorist
  One who colors; an artist who excels in the use of colors; one to whom coloring is of prime importance.
• WHITEPLAGUE
  Tuberculosis, esp. of the lungs.
• Minute-jack
  A figure which strikes the hour on the bell of some fanciful clocks; -- called also jack of the clock house.
• White-face
  A white mark in the forehead of a horse, descending almost to the nose; -- called also white-blaze.
• Whiteness
  The quality or state of being white; white color, or freedom from darkness or obscurity on the surface.
• Whiteweed
  A perennial composite herb (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum) with conspicuous white rays and a yellow disk, a common weed in grass lands and pastures; -- called also oxeye daisy.
• Arsenide
  A compound of arsenic with a metal, or positive element or radical; -- formerly called arseniuret.

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