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andrewsite

andrewsite noun: a now-discredited mineral, reported in Cornwall and later shown to be a mixture of hentschelite and rockbridgeite, with minor chalcosiderite.

Noun

andrewsite (uncountable)

  1. (historical) A now-discredited mineral, reported in Cornwall and later shown to be a mixture of hentschelite and rockbridgeite, with minor chalcosiderite.

Origin of andrewsite

From Andrews + -ite, after the English chemist Thomas Andrews.

Questions about andrewsite

What does andrewsite mean?
Andrewsite means a now-discredited mineral, reported in Cornwall and later shown to be a mixture of hentschelite and rockbridgeite, with minor chalcosiderite.
What part of speech is andrewsite?
Andrewsite is a noun.

Words near andrewsite in the dictionary

  1. Andrews' beaked whale
  2. Andrews' beaked whales
  3. andrewsarchus
  4. andrewsarchuses
  5. Andrewses
  6. andrewsite
  7. Andrey
  8. Andria
  9. andrianovite
  10. Andrick
  11. Andricks

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