Word.ws English Dictionary

jaffeite

jaffeite noun: a hydrated calcium silicate mineral with chemical formula Ca₆Si₂O₇(OH)₆.

Noun

jaffeite (plural jaffeites)

  1. A hydrated calcium silicate mineral with chemical formula Ca₆Si₂O₇(OH)₆.

Forms of jaffeite

pluraljaffeites

Origin of jaffeite

After Howard W Jaffe, Amherst geologist, and -ite.

Questions about jaffeite

What does jaffeite mean?
Jaffeite means a hydrated calcium silicate mineral with chemical formula Ca₆Si₂O₇(OH)₆.
What part of speech is jaffeite?
Jaffeite is a noun.
What is the plural of jaffeite?
The plural of jaffeite is jaffeites.

Words near jaffeite in the dictionary

  1. jaffas
  2. Jaffe
  3. Jaffe-Campanacci syndrome
  4. Jaffee
  5. Jaffees
  6. jaffeite
  7. jaffeites
  8. Jaffer
  9. Jaffers
  10. Jaffes
  11. jaffies

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: jaffeite (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “jaffeite.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/jaffeite. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.