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iquiqueite

iquiqueite noun: a trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal yellow mineral containing boron, chromium, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, potassium, and sodium.

Noun

iquiqueite (uncountable)

  1. A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal yellow mineral containing boron, chromium, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, potassium, and sodium.
    • Carlos ruizite.[…]As platy crystals, up to 200 μm, in iquiqueite found within yellow nitrate ore samples of mainly nitratine, halite and darapskite from the Zapiga district, Tarapacá Province, Chile.1996, Mineralogical Magazine, volume 60, page 527

Origin of iquiqueite

From Iquique (“a place name”) + -ite, after the city of Iquique, Chile.

Questions about iquiqueite

What does iquiqueite mean?
Iquiqueite means a trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal yellow mineral containing boron, chromium, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, potassium, and sodium.
What part of speech is iquiqueite?
Iquiqueite is a noun.

Words near iquiqueite in the dictionary

  1. iqta
  2. iqtadar
  3. iqtadars
  4. iqtas
  5. iquindamine
  6. iquiqueite
  7. Iquito
  8. Iquitos
  9. iqyax
  10. IR
  11. IR drop

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