English Explanatory Dictionary

birnessite

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A soft mineral, mostly containing manganese oxides, that occurs in manganese nodules.

Word forms

birnessite birnessites

Etymology

From Birness + -ite, after Birness, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, where it was first described.

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