English Explanatory Dictionary

witherite

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A yellow-grey mineral form of barium carbonate, BaCO₃

Word forms

witherite witherites

Etymology

After the English physician and mineralogist William Withering (1741-1799) in 1790.

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