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English
Etymology
Named after Swedish chemist Johan Gottlieb Gahn (1745-1818) in 1807.[1]
Noun
gahnite (countable and uncountable, plural gahnites)
- (mineralogy) A rare mineral ZnAl2O4 in the spinel group.
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Further reading
- David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Gahnite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
- “gahnite”, in Mindat.org, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.
- ^ 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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