witherite

witherite

See also: Witherite and withérite

English

Witherite

Etymology

After the English physician and mineralogist William Withering (1741-1799) in 1790.[1]

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 (1997–2023), “Witherite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “witherite”, 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