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millerite

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millerite [′milĀ·ə‚rīt]
(mineralogy)
NiS A brass to bronze-yellow mineral that crystallizes in the hexagonal system and usually contains trace amounts of cobalt, copper, and iron; hardness is 3-3.5 on Mohs scale, and specific gravity is 5.5; it generally occurs in fine crystals, chiefly as nodules in clay ironstone. Also known as capillary pyrites; hair pyrites; nickel pyrites.


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Still, there were the 11th Century Christians who believed Christ would return on the 1,000th anniversary of his crucifixion; the Millerites, a Christian sect that predicted the world would end Oct.
The presentation of the vivid charts used by the nineteenth-century millennial group the Millerites to illustrate the Second Coming of Christ grounded the remainder of the show by revealing key common sources for twentieth-century Southern visionary artwork depicting apocalyptic themes.
The story of end-tunes frenzy of the Millerites, the Millenarians, the Shakers, the Seventh-Day Adventists and others is known to students of American religious history.
 
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