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faustite

faustite noun: a triclinic-pinacoidal apple green mineral containing aluminum, copper, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and zinc.

Noun

faustite

  1. A triclinic-pinacoidal apple green mineral containing aluminum, copper, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and zinc.

Origin of faustite

Named by Richard Erd et al in honour of George Faust (1908 - 1985), mineralogist and petrologist of the U.S. Geological Survey and the describer of the minerals huntite, pecoraite and schoenfliesite. Faust + -ite

Questions about faustite

What does faustite mean?
Faustite means a triclinic-pinacoidal apple green mineral containing aluminum, copper, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and zinc.
What part of speech is faustite?
Faustite is a noun.

Words near faustite in the dictionary

  1. Faustianly
  2. Faustianness
  3. faustiest
  4. Faustin
  5. Faustins
  6. faustite
  7. faustovirus
  8. faustoviruses
  9. faustulid
  10. faustulids
  11. fausty

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