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kombatite

kombatite noun: a monoclinic-prismatic light yellow mineral containing chlorine, lead, oxygen, and vanadium.

Noun

kombatite (uncountable)

  1. A monoclinic-prismatic light yellow mineral containing chlorine, lead, oxygen, and vanadium.
    • Kombatite is bright yellow in color with a light yellow streak.1986, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, page 520
    • However, later a large number of new minerals were discovered from the manganese and iron ores, such as kombatite, asisite, johninnesite and amaraite.2004, Gabi Schneider, The roadside geology of Namibia, page 24

Origin of kombatite

From Kombat + -ite, after the Kombat Mine in the north-central part of Namibia, from Herero [Term?] (given name).

Questions about kombatite

What does kombatite mean?
Kombatite means a monoclinic-prismatic light yellow mineral containing chlorine, lead, oxygen, and vanadium.
What part of speech is kombatite?
Kombatite is a noun.

Words near kombatite in the dictionary

  1. komatiks
  2. Komatis
  3. Komatsu
  4. komatsuna
  5. Komatsus
  6. kombatite
  7. kombi
  8. kombinat
  9. kombinats
  10. kombis
  11. kombivan

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