English Explanatory Dictionary

crossite

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An inosilicate double-chain sodic amphibole mineral of the riebeckite group, now discredited.

Word forms

crossite crossites

Etymology

From Cross + -ite, after the American petrologist Charles Whitman Cross.

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