colemanite
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See also: Colemanite and colémanite
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Coleman + -ite, named after William Tell Coleman (1824-1893) in 1884.[1]
Noun
[edit]colemanite (countable and uncountable, plural colemanites)
- (mineralogy) A white, grey or colorless mineral form of calcium borate; a principal source of boron.
Translations
[edit]calcium borate mineral
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See also
[edit]Calcium borate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Category:Colemanite on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Further reading
[edit]- David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Colemanite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
- “colemanite”, in Mindat.org[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.
- ^ Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine W. Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig: Dana's new mineralogy, John Wiley & Sons, 1997