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gonyerite

gonyerite noun: an orthorhombic mineral containing hydrogen, iron, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, and silicon.

Noun

gonyerite

  1. An orthorhombic mineral containing hydrogen, iron, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, and silicon.

Origin of gonyerite

From Gonyer + -ite, named for Forest A. Gonyer, a chemist-analyst and mineralogist from Harvard University.

Questions about gonyerite

What does gonyerite mean?
Gonyerite means an orthorhombic mineral containing hydrogen, iron, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, and silicon.
What part of speech is gonyerite?
Gonyerite is a noun.

Words near gonyerite in the dictionary

  1. gonydial
  2. Gonyea
  3. Gonyeas
  4. gonyectyposis
  5. Gonyer
  6. gonyerite
  7. Gonyers
  8. gonyleptid
  9. gonyleptids
  10. gonyleptoid
  11. gonyleptoids

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