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roggianite

roggianite noun: a tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal mineral containing aluminum, beryllium, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon.

Noun

roggianite

  1. A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal mineral containing aluminum, beryllium, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon.

Origin of roggianite

Named in honour of Aldo Giuseppe Roggiani (1914-1986), Italian science teacher who found the first specimen and an expert on the mineralogy of the Ossola region Roggiani + -ite

Questions about roggianite

What does roggianite mean?
Roggianite means a tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal mineral containing aluminum, beryllium, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon.
What part of speech is roggianite?
Roggianite is a noun.

Words near roggianite in the dictionary

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