wulfenite

wulfenite

See also: Wulfenite and wulfénite

English

Wulfenite

Etymology

Wulfen +‎ -ite, for Austrian mineralogist Franz Xavier von Wulfen (1728-1805), named in 1841.[1]

Noun

wulfenite (countable and uncountable, plural wulfenites)

1. (mineralogy) An orange mineral, lead molybdate, PbMoO₄, found in lead veins.

Translations

a mineral, lead molybdate

Finnish: wulfeniitti French: wulfénite (fr) f German: Wulfenit (de) m Italian: wulfenite f Portuguese: wulfenita f Spanish: wulfenita f

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2023), “Wulfenite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “wulfenite”, 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

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Italian

Noun

wulfenite f (plural wulfeniti)

1. (mineralogy) wulfenite