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

  • noun A white, yellow, or gray mineral, chiefly BaCO3.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Native barium carbonate.

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

  • noun (Min.) Barium carbonate occurring in white or gray six-sided twin crystals, and also in columnar or granular masses.

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  • noun mineralogy A yellow-grey mineral form of barium carbonate, BaCO3

Etymologies

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

[German Witherit, after William Withering, (1741–1799), British physician.]

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

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