When spun on a rotatable stage of a microscope (under plane polarized light), dyscrasite’s color should slightly change shades.

[4] Dyscrasite belongs to the orthorhombic crystal class, meaning all three of its axes (a, b, and c) are unequal in length and are 90° to each other.

[5] It was first described for an occurrence in 1797 in the Wenzel Mine, Black Forest, Germany.

The name dyscrasite comes from the Greek word δυσκράσις, meaning "a bad alloy.

"[3] It occurs as a hydrothermal mineral in silver bearing veins in association with native silver, pyrargyrite, acanthite, stromeyerite, tetrahedrite, allemontite, galena, calcite and baryte.