Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A red, yellow, or brown mineral, essentially HFeO2, one of the common constituents of rust.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hydrous oxid of iron, occurring in orthorhombic crystals, also massive. It is found with other ores of iron, for example hematite or limonite, as at the Lake Superior mines.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Miner.) an oxide of iron.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy An
iron oxyhydroxide that is the main constituent ofrust
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a red or yellow or brown mineral; an oxide of iron that is a common constituent of rust
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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He was fascinated by minerals and early mineralogy (the mineral goethite is named for him).
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He was fascinated by minerals and early mineralogy (the mineral goethite is named for him).
March « 2008 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008
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Low goethite: Mineralogical studies of the bauxite suggest that abundances of the problematic iron hydroxide mineral species called goethite are very low to absent.
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Low goethite: Mineralogical studies of the bauxite suggest that abundances of the problematic iron hydroxide mineral species called goethite are very low to absent.
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Low goethite: Mineralogical studies of the bauxite suggest that abundances of the problematic iron hydroxide mineral species called goethite are very low to absent.
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Low goethite: Mineralogical studies of the bauxite suggest that abundances of the problematic iron hydroxide mineral species called goethite are very low to absent.
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Low goethite: Mineralogical studies of the bauxite suggest that abundances of the problematic iron hydroxide mineral species called goethite are very low to absent.
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Low goethite: Mineralogical studies of the bauxite suggest that abundances of the problematic iron hydroxide mineral species called goethite are very low to absent.
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The experiments, reported in the European journal Water Research, used a mineral called goethite, an iron-bearing oxide that is abundant on the ocean floor.
Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News 2010
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Low goethite: Mineralogical studies of the bauxite suggest that abundances of the problematic iron hydroxide mineral species called goethite are very low to absent.
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