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roeblingite

roeblingite noun: a monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, lead, oxygen, silicon, and sulfur.

Noun

roeblingite

  1. A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, lead, oxygen, silicon, and sulfur.

Origin of roeblingite

Named in 1897 by Samuel Lewis Penfield and Harry Ward Foote in honour of Colonel Washington A. Roebling (1837-1926), engineer, founder of the Mineralogical Society of America, builder of the Brooklyn Bridge and avid mineral collector. Roebling + -ite

Questions about roeblingite

What does roeblingite mean?
Roeblingite means a monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, lead, oxygen, silicon, and sulfur.
What part of speech is roeblingite?
Roeblingite is a noun.

Words near roeblingite in the dictionary

  1. Roe Green
  2. Roe's poison
  3. roe-sick
  4. Roeber
  5. Roebers
  6. roeblingite
  7. roebuck
  8. roebuck-berries
  9. roebuck-berry
  10. roebucks
  11. Roecker

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