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English
Etymology
From Birness + -ite, after Birness, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, where it was first described.
Noun
birnessite (plural birnessites)
- (mineralogy) A soft mineral, mostly containing manganese oxides, that occurs in manganese nodules.
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