Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A colorless to greenish yellow or black mineral, Al3(PO4)2(OH)3·5H2O, having finely acicular, radiating crystals and sometimes mined for the extraction of phosphorous.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A hydrous phosphate of aluminium, commonly found in radiated hemispherical or globular crystalline concretions from a very small size to 1 inch in diameter, and of a white to yellow-green or brown color. See cut under radiate.
Wiktionary
- n. mineralogy A hydrated aluminium phosphate, Al3(PO4)2(OH,F)3·5H2O, sometimed mined as a source of phosphorus.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Min.) A hydrous phosphate of alumina, occurring usually in hemispherical radiated forms varying in color from white to yellow, green, or black.
Etymologies
- Wavell + -ite, after W. Wavell, British physician. (Wiktionary)
- After W. Wavell (died 1829), British physician. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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“Bone ash (made from calcining animal bones), apatite, wavellite, vivianite.”
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Minerals and Mineralogy
List of minerals, elements, group names and geochemistry terms encountered in the science of mineralogy. I've chosen to avoid capital letters in most examples, though a great many mineral names hon...
galkhaite, xanthoconite, pyrostilpnite, polybasite, pyrargyrite, djurleite, digenite, covellite, chalcocite, cerargirite, acanthite, aeschynite and 2608 more...
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