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stanleyite

stanleyite noun: an orthorhombic mineral containing hydrogen, oxygen, sulfur, and vanadium.

Noun

stanleyite

  1. An orthorhombic mineral containing hydrogen, oxygen, sulfur, and vanadium.

Origin of stanleyite

From Stanley + -ite, after Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904), British journalist and explorer.

Questions about stanleyite

What does stanleyite mean?
Stanleyite means an orthorhombic mineral containing hydrogen, oxygen, sulfur, and vanadium.
What part of speech is stanleyite?
Stanleyite is a noun.

Words near stanleyite in the dictionary

  1. Stanley Green
  2. Stanley knife
  3. Stanley knives
  4. Stanley Pontlarge
  5. Stanley Pool
  6. stanleyite
  7. stanliff
  8. stanliffs
  9. Stanlow
  10. Stanly
  11. Stanly County

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