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byzantievite

byzantievite noun: a brown trigonal mineral containing boron, barium, calcium, flourine, hydrogen, niobium, oxygen, phosphorus, silicon, titanium, and yttrium.

Noun

byzantievite

  1. A brown trigonal mineral containing boron, barium, calcium, flourine, hydrogen, niobium, oxygen, phosphorus, silicon, titanium, and yttrium.

Origin of byzantievite

Named by Leonid Pautov, Atali Agakhanov, Elena Sokolova, Frank Hawthorne and Vladimir Karpenko after the Byzantine empire to reflect the complexity and chemical diversity of the mineral, seemingly reminiscent of the complex organisation and racial diversity of the Byzantines. Byzanti- + -ev- + -ite

Questions about byzantievite

What does byzantievite mean?
Byzantievite means a brown trigonal mineral containing boron, barium, calcium, flourine, hydrogen, niobium, oxygen, phosphorus, silicon, titanium, and yttrium.
What part of speech is byzantievite?
Byzantievite is a noun.

Words near byzantievite in the dictionary

  1. byzaanchy
  2. byzant
  3. Byzantiac
  4. Byzantian
  5. Byzantians
  6. byzantievite
  7. byzantine
  8. Byzantine attack
  9. Byzantine attacks
  10. Byzantine Empire
  11. Byzantine fault tolerance

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