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English
Etymology
Named after Richard Chenevix (1774-1830), French chemist and the analyst of an arsenate of copper and iron from Cornwall in 1801 that was later shown to be chenevixite.
Chenevix + -ite
Noun
chenevixite
- (mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing arsenic, copper, hydrogen, iron, and oxygen.
References
- David Barthelmy (1997–2025) “Chenevixite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.