birnessite
English
Etymology
Birness + -ite, after Birness, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, where it was first described.
Noun
birnessite (plural birnessites)
- (mineralogy) A soft mineral, mostly containing manganese oxides, that occurs in manganese nodules.
Further reading
- David Barthelmy (1997–2023), “Birnessite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
- “birnessite”, in Mindat.org, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2023.