Word.ws English Dictionary

mercallite

mercallite noun: an orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing hydrogen, oxygen, potassium, and sulfur.

Noun

mercallite

  1. An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing hydrogen, oxygen, potassium, and sulfur.

Origin of mercallite

Named after Italian volcanologist Giuseppe Mercalli (1850–1914)

Questions about mercallite

What does mercallite mean?
Mercallite means an orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing hydrogen, oxygen, potassium, and sulfur.
What part of speech is mercallite?
Mercallite is a noun.

Words near mercallite in the dictionary

  1. Mercado
  2. mercal
  3. mercall
  4. Mercalli intensities
  5. Mercalli intensity
  6. mercallite
  7. mercalls
  8. mercals
  9. mercantile
  10. mercantilely
  11. mercantilism

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mercallite (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: “mercallite.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/mercallite. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.