English Explanatory Dictionary

berzelianite

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing copper and selenium.

Word forms

berzelianite

Etymology

Named in 1850 by James Dwight Dana in honour of Jöns Jakob Berzelius (1779-1848), Swedish chemist and the inventor of chemical symbol notation. Berzelius + an + -ite

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