English Explanatory Dictionary

hackmanite

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An important variety of sodalite exhibiting tenebrescence.

Word forms

hackmanite hackmanites

Etymology

From Hackman + -ite, named according to Finnish geologist Victor Hackman who first discovered the mineral in Kola peninsula.

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