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MIMETITE , a mineral
system
appearance and general characters. The arsenic is usually partly replaced by equivalent amounts of phosphorus, and there may thus be a gradual passage from mimetite to pyromorphite. The two species can, as a rule
analysis , and because of their close resemblance the less frequently occurring chloro-arsenate was named mimetite or mimetesite, from Gr. igrns, imitator. Crystals of pyromorphite though usually optically uniaxial are sometimes biaxial, but in mimetite this anomalous character is almost always present; a cross
mispickel
Cornwall
Cumberland
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