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atacamite

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atacamite [‚ad·ə′kam‚īt]
(mineralogy)
Cu2Cl(OH)3Native, green hydrouscopper oxychloride crystallizing in the orthorhombic system.
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Since then, saline dewatering of the basement along long-lived faults has converted the original supergene copper oxide assemblage, formed in equilibrium with meteoric water and lacking atacamite, to one containing atacamite [[Cu.
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Its jaws use a mystery-element-containing mineral called atacamite.
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Stucky and his coworkers recently reported that the tiny jaws of the bloodworm, Glycera dibranchiata, contain the copper chloride mineral called atacamite, which makes the structures particularly strong (SN: 11/9/02, p.
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