arizonite

English

Etymology

Arizona +‎ -ite

Noun

arizonite (usually uncountable, plural arizonites)

  1. (mineralogy) A particular mineral containing iron, found in Arizona.
    • 1878, Richard Josiah Hinton, The Handbook to Arizona‎:
      The principal vein matter is micaceous iron, iodide of silver, gold, sulphurets of iron, and antimony. The name Arizonite has been given to it by Mr. H. G. Hanks, of San Francisco.
    • 1909, Chase Palmer, “Arizonite, Ferric Metatitanate”, in The American Journal of Science‎, volume 28, number 166, page 356:
      Even more closely related to arizonite is a titanic iron sand from Brazil, described by J. B. Mackintosh.

Further reading

  • “Arizonite” in David Barthelmy, Webmineral Mineralogy Database, 1997–.

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