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fuenzalidaite

fuenzalidaite noun: a trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral mineral containing hydrogen, iodine, magnesium, oxygen, potassium, sodium, and sulfur.

Noun

fuenzalidaite

  1. A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral mineral containing hydrogen, iodine, magnesium, oxygen, potassium, sodium, and sulfur.

Origin of fuenzalidaite

Named by Judith A. Konnert et al. in 1994 in honour of Humberto Fuenzalida Villegas (1904-1966), founder of the Chilean School of Geology within the University of Chile and the Geological Society of Chile Fuenzalida + -ite

Questions about fuenzalidaite

What does fuenzalidaite mean?
Fuenzalidaite means a trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral mineral containing hydrogen, iodine, magnesium, oxygen, potassium, sodium, and sulfur.
What part of speech is fuenzalidaite?
Fuenzalidaite is a noun.

Words near fuenzalidaite in the dictionary

  1. Fuente Maluso
  2. Fuentes
  3. Fuenteses
  4. Fuentez
  5. Fuentezes
  6. fuenzalidaite
  7. fuerdai
  8. fuerist
  9. fuerists
  10. fuero
  11. fueros

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