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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A green radioactive mineral that is a hydrous crystalline phosphate of uranium and copper.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A native phosphate of uranium and copper, occurring in square tabular crystals of a bright-green color, pearly luster, and micaceous cleavage. Also called chalcolite, and copper uranite.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Min.) A mineral occurring in emerald-green tabular crystals having a micaceous structure. It is a hydrous phosphate of uranium and copper. Called also copper uranite, and chalcolite.

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  • noun mineralogy A radioactive green phosphate mineral, isostructural with autunite, found in granites and other uranium-bearing deposits as a secondary mineral.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Torbern, Olof Bergman (1735–1784), Swedish chemist.]

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Torbern Bergman (1735-1784), Swedish chemist, and -ite.

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