putnisite
Meanings
noun
- A quartz-like mineral, purple in colour, naturally occurring brittle crystals smaller than 0.5 mm, with an orthorhombic crystalline matrix of SrCa₄Cr³⁺₈(CO₃)₈SO₄(OH)₁₆·23H₂O
Word forms
Etymology
From Putnis + -ite, from the name of the discoverers, mineralogists Andrew and Christine Putnis.
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.