witherite

See also: Witherite and withérite

English

Witherite

Etymology

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

Noun

witherite (countable and uncountable, plural witherites)

1. (mineralogy) A yellow-grey mineral form of barium carbonate, BaCO₃

Translations

mineral

• Catalan: witherita
• Dutch: witheriet
• Finnish: witheriitti
• French: withérite (fr)
• German: witherit
• Hungarian: witherit
• Italian: witherite
• Norwegian:

  Nynorsk: witheritt

• Occitan: whiterita
• Polish: witeryt m
• Portuguese: whiterita
• Spanish: witherita f

References

• David Barthelmy (1997–2025) “Witherite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “witherite”, in Mindat.org‎^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2025.