English Explanatory Dictionary

fuchsite

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A green variety of muscovite

Word forms

fuchsite fuchsites

Etymology

Named in 1842 by Karl F. Emil von Schafhäutl in honor of Johann Nepomuk von Fuchs, a German chemist and mineralogist.

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