English Explanatory Dictionary

mackinawite

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A tetragonal iron nickel sulfide mineral that occurs as opaque bronze to grey-white tabular crystals and anhedral masses.

Word forms

mackinawite mackinawites

Etymology

Mackinaw mine, Washington, where an occurrence was first described + -ite.

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