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tac•o•nite n.

Mineralogya low-grade iron ore, containing about 27 percent iron and 51 percent silica, found as a hard rock formation in the Lake Superior region.

1890–95, American; named after the Taconic mountain range (east of the Hudson River); see -ite¹

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