English Explanatory Dictionary

pendletonite

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Name for a coronene mineral, later called carpathite.

Word forms

pendletonite

Etymology

Named after Norman Pendleton (1901-1995), a mineral collector in Santa Cruz. Name invented by Joseph Murdoch in 1967.

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