aragonite

See also: Aragonite

English

Etymology

Aragon +‎ -ite, after the province in Spain, named by Abraham Gottlob Werner in 1790.^[1]

Noun

aragonite (countable and uncountable, plural aragonites)

(mineralogy) A saline evaporite consisting of anhydrous calcium carbonate with the chemical formula Ca C O₃; it is dimorphous with calcite.

Derived terms

aragonitic

Translations

saline evaporate

Catalan: aragonita f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 霰石 (zh) (xiànshí)
Esperanto: aragonito
Estonian: aragoniit
Finnish: aragoniitti

Japanese: 霰石 (あられいし, arareishi)
Navajo: hadahoniyeʼ
Portuguese: aragonita (pt) f
Russian: арагони́т (ru) m (aragonít)
Slovak: aragonit (sk) m
Spanish: aragonito (es) m

Further reading

“Aragonite” in David Barthelmy, Webmineral Mineralogy Database, 1997–.
aragonite mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, accessed 29 August 2016

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

French

Noun

aragonite f (plural aragonites)

(mineralogy) aragonite

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