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rinkite

rinkite noun: a monoclinic-sphenoidal mineral containing calcium, cerium, fluorine, niobium, oxygen, silicon, sodium, and titanium.

Noun

rinkite

  1. A monoclinic-sphenoidal mineral containing calcium, cerium, fluorine, niobium, oxygen, silicon, sodium, and titanium.

Origin of rinkite

Named in 1884 by Johannes Theodor Lorenzen in honour of Henrik Johannes Rink (1819-1893), Director of the Royal Greenland Board of Trade at the time. Rink + -ite In 2016, the IMA renamed rinkite to rinkite-(Ce), as opposed to rinkite-(Y).

Questions about rinkite

What does rinkite mean?
Rinkite means a monoclinic-sphenoidal mineral containing calcium, cerium, fluorine, niobium, oxygen, silicon, sodium, and titanium.
What part of speech is rinkite?
Rinkite is a noun.

Words near rinkite in the dictionary

  1. rinkers
  2. Rinkes
  3. rinkhals
  4. rinkhalses
  5. rinking
  6. rinkite
  7. rinkman
  8. rinkmaster
  9. rinkmasters
  10. rinkmen
  11. rinkolite

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