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dessauite

dessauite noun: a trigonal-rhombohedral black mineral containing iron, lead, oxygen, strontium, titanium, uranium, and yttrium.

Noun

dessauite

  1. A trigonal-rhombohedral black mineral containing iron, lead, oxygen, strontium, titanium, uranium, and yttrium.

Origin of dessauite

From Dessau + -ite after Gabor Dessau (1907-1983), professor of ore mineralogy at the University of Pisa, Italy.

Questions about dessauite

What does dessauite mean?
Dessauite means a trigonal-rhombohedral black mineral containing iron, lead, oxygen, strontium, titanium, uranium, and yttrium.
What part of speech is dessauite?
Dessauite is a noun.

Words near dessauite in the dictionary

  1. Desrocherses
  2. Desroches
  3. Desrosiers
  4. dess
  5. Dessau
  6. dessauite
  7. dessay
  8. dessaye
  9. dessayes
  10. Desserah
  11. dessert

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