English Explanatory Dictionary

roeblingite

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, lead, oxygen, silicon, and sulfur.

Word forms

roeblingite

Etymology

Named in 1897 by Samuel Lewis Penfield and Harry Ward Foote in honour of Colonel Washington A. Roebling (1837-1926), engineer, founder of the Mineralogical Society of America, builder of the Brooklyn Bridge and avid mineral collector. Roebling + -ite

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