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guérinite

guérinite noun: a colourless monoclinic mineral containing calcium, astatine, hydrogen and oxygen.

Noun

guérinite

  1. A colourless monoclinic mineral containing calcium, astatine, hydrogen and oxygen.

Origin of guérinite

From French Guérin + -ite; named by the Russian mineralogist Yevgenii Ivanovich Nefedov (1910–1976) in 1961 in honour of Henri Guérin (1906–1995), chemist at Paris-Sud University, France, who first synthesized the compound.

Questions about guérinite

What does guérinite mean?
Guérinite means a colourless monoclinic mineral containing calcium, astatine, hydrogen and oxygen.
What part of speech is guérinite?
Guérinite is a noun.

Words near guérinite in the dictionary

  1. guzzy
  2. Guárico
  3. Guéret
  4. guéridon
  5. guéridons
  6. guérinite
  7. Gușoeni
  8. GV
  9. GVA
  10. GVHD
  11. gvir

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