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English
Etymology
From Coleman + -ite, named after William Tell Coleman (1824-1893) in 1884.[1]
Noun
colemanite (countable and uncountable, plural colemanites)
- (mineralogy) A white, grey or colorless mineral form of calcium borate; a principal source of boron.
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- ^ Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine W. Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig: Dana's new mineralogy, John Wiley & Sons, 1997
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