English Explanatory Dictionary

hauerite

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A manganese sulfide mineral, MnS₂, that forms reddish-brown or black octahedral crystals.

Word forms

hauerite

Etymology

From Hauer + -ite, after Austrian geologists Joseph and Franz Ritter von Hauer.

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