millerite2 Min.
(ˈmɪləraɪt)
[ad. G. millerit: named by W. Haidinger in 1845 after W. H. Miller, professor of mineralogy at Cambridge 1832–1870: see -ite1.]
Native sulphide of nickel, usually occurring in brassy or bronze crystals; capillary pyrites.
| 1854 Dana Syst. Min. (ed. 4) II. 49 Millerite, Haid. Capillary Pyrites. Sulphuret of Nickel [etc.]. 1881 Ruskin Let. in St. George (1903) VI. 358, I would have kept the millerite, but the specimen was not pretty. |