orcelite Min.
(ɔːˈsɛlaɪt)
[ad. F. orcélite (also used) (S. Caillère et al. 1959, in Compt. Rend. CCXLIX. 1773), f. the name of Jean Orcel (b. 1896), French mineralogist: see -ite1.]
An arsenide of nickel, Ni2As, found as bronze-coloured hexagonal crystals.
| 1960 Amer. Mineralogist XLV. 753 Orcelite... The mineral has a rose bronze color, browner than that of niccolite. 1962 Mineral. Abstr. XV. 352/1 Orcélite..occurs as a bronze mineral making up a large part of a vein in serpentinized harzburgite in the Trebaghi massif, New Caledonia. |