English Explanatory Dictionary

coffinite

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A brown or black uranium-bearing silicate mineral.

Word forms

coffinite coffinites

Etymology

From Coffin + -ite, after Reuben Clare Coffin, American geologist.

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