fayalite

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English

Fayalite
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Etymology

From Fayal (Faial Island in the Azores) +‎ -ite. Named in 1840.[1]

Noun

fayalite (countable and uncountable, plural fayalites)

  1. (mineralogy) Yellow, olive green, brown or black mineral with orthorhombic crystals of the olivine group, Fe2SiO4.

Translations

References

  1. ^ Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine W. Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig: Dana's new mineralogy, John Wiley & Sons, 1997

Further reading

  • David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Fayalite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
  • fayalite”, in Mindat.org, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.

French

Noun

fayalite f (plural fayalites)

  1. (mineralogy) fayalite

Italian

Noun

fayalite f (plural fayaliti)

  1. (mineralogy) fayalite