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geffroyite

geffroyite noun: an isometric-hexoctahedral bronze brown mineral containing copper, iron, selenium, silver, and sulfur.

Noun

geffroyite

  1. An isometric-hexoctahedral bronze brown mineral containing copper, iron, selenium, silver, and sulfur.

Origin of geffroyite

Geffroyite was named in honor of Jaques Geffroy, a metallurgist for the French Atomic Energy Commission. geffroy + -ite

Questions about geffroyite

What does geffroyite mean?
Geffroyite means an isometric-hexoctahedral bronze brown mineral containing copper, iron, selenium, silver, and sulfur.
What part of speech is geffroyite?
Geffroyite is a noun.

Words near geffroyite in the dictionary

  1. Geffrard
  2. Geffrards
  3. Geffre
  4. Geffres
  5. Geffrey
  6. geffroyite
  7. gefilte
  8. gefilte fish
  9. gefiltefish
  10. gefitinib
  11. gefuffle

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