kombatite
English
Etymology
Kombat + -ite, after the Kombat Mine in the north-central part of Namibia, from Herero [Term?] (given name).
Noun
kombatite (uncountable)
- (mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic light yellow mineral containing chlorine, lead, oxygen, and vanadium.
- 1986, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, page 520:
- Kombatite is bright yellow in color with a light yellow streak.
- 2004, Gabi Schneider, The roadside geology of Namibia, page 24:
- However, later a large number of new minerals were discovered from the manganese and iron ores, such as kombatite, asisite, johninnesite and amaraite.
- 2011, S V Krivovichev, Minerals as Advanced Materials II, page 322:
- In ordered structures, vacancies in the PbO blocks have the form of a square (in symesite), or a double square (butterfly-like vacancies in kombatite and sahlinite).
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References
- David Barthelmy (1997–2023), “Kombatite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.