gahnite

English

Etymology

Named after Swedish chemist Johan Gottlieb Gahn (1745-1818) in 1807.[1]

Noun

gahnite (countable and uncountable, plural gahnites)

  1. (mineralogy) A rare mineral ZnAl2O4 in the spinel group.

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Further reading

  1. ^ Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine W. Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig: Dana's new mineralogy, John Wiley & Sons, 1997

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