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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A lime-iron variety of pyroxene, occurring in crystals and in lamellar masses of a black or blackish-green color at Tunaberg in Sweden, and elsewhere.
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- noun mineralogy The
iron -richendmember of thepyroxene group having amonoclinic crystal system.
Etymologies
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Hedenberg + -ite, after M. A. Ludwig Hedenberg.
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