witherite

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See also: Witherite and withérite

English

Witherite
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Etymology

After the English physician and mineralogist William Withering (1741-1799) in 1790.

Noun

witherite (countable and uncountable, plural witherites)

  1. (mineralogy) A yellow-grey mineral form of barium carbonate, BaCO3

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References

  • David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Witherite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
  • witherite”, in Mindat.org, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.
  1. ^ Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine W. Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig: Dana's new mineralogy, John Wiley & Sons, 1997