colemanite

colemanite

See also: Colemanite and colémanite

English

Etymology

Coleman +‎ -ite, named after William Tell Coleman (1824-1893) in 1884.[1]

Noun

colemanite (countable and uncountable, plural colemanites)

1. (mineralogy) A white, grey or colorless mineral form of calcium borate; a principal source of boron.

Translations

calcium borate mineral

Finnish: colemaniitti French: colémanite (fr) f German: Colemanit m Italian: colemanite f Portuguese: colemanita f Spanish: colemanita f

See also

• Calcium borate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Colemanite on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2023), “Colemanite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “colemanite”, in Mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2023.

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

Anagrams

• melaconite