fayalite
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English
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Etymology
[edit]From Fayal (“Faial Island in the Azores”) + -ite. Named in 1840.[1]
Noun
[edit]fayalite (countable and uncountable, plural fayalites)
- (mineralogy) Yellow, olive green, brown or black mineral with orthorhombic crystals of the olivine group, Fe2SiO4.
Translations
[edit]iron-rich olivine mineral
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References
[edit]- ^ Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine W. Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig: Dana's new mineralogy, John Wiley & Sons, 1997
Further reading
[edit]- David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Fayalite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
- “fayalite”, in Mindat.org[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.
French
[edit]Noun
[edit]fayalite f (plural fayalites)
Italian
[edit]Noun
[edit]fayalite f (plural fayaliti)
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