cassiterite Min.
(kəˈsɪtəraɪt)
[f. Gr. κασσίτερος tin + -ite.]
Native stannic dioxide, the most common ore of tin, occurring in various forms, as tin stone, wood tin, toad's-eye tin, stream tin.
| 1858 Shepard Min. 264 Wood-tin of the Cornish miners is only a variety of cassiterite. 1873 Watts Fownes' Chem. 445 Dioxide, or Stannic Oxide, occurs native as tin-stone or cassiterite. 1879 Rutley Stud. Rocks x. 148. |