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nambulite

nambulite noun: a triclinic-pinacoidal reddish orange brown mineral containing hydrogen, lithium, manganese, oxygen, silicon, and sodium.

Noun

nambulite

  1. A triclinic-pinacoidal reddish orange brown mineral containing hydrogen, lithium, manganese, oxygen, silicon, and sodium.

Origin of nambulite

Named after Japanese mineralogist at Tohoku University, Matsuo Nambu (1917–), + -lite.

Words formed from nambulite

Questions about nambulite

What does nambulite mean?
Nambulite means a triclinic-pinacoidal reddish orange brown mineral containing hydrogen, lithium, manganese, oxygen, silicon, and sodium.
What part of speech is nambulite?
Nambulite is a noun.

Words near nambulite in the dictionary

  1. Nambu-Goldstone bosons
  2. Nambucca Heads
  3. Nambucca Valley
  4. Nambudiri
  5. Nambudiris
  6. nambulite
  7. Namburi
  8. Namburis
  9. namby
  10. namby-pambical
  11. namby-pambied

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