miserite

English

Miserite

Etymology

From Miser (“a surname”) +‎ -ite, named for Dr. Hugh D. Miser, a geologist of the U.S. Geological Survey.[1]

Noun

miserite (uncountable)

  1. (mineralogy) A lilac-pink or red triclinic-pinacoidal rare-earth mineral of interest also for cleaning up radioactive and other wastes and for ceramics.
    • 1989, Joseph Anthony Mandarino, ‎Violet Anderson, Monteregian Treasures: The Minerals of Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, p. 141:
      Miserite is rare at Mont Saint-Hilaire, but may be locally abundant.

References

  1. ↑ Schallert,Waldemar T. (1950), “Miserite from Arkansas: a renaming of natroxonotlite”, in American Mineralogist‎, volume 35, page 911

Further reading

  • “Miserite” in David Barthelmy, Webmineral Mineralogy Database, 1997–.
  • miserite at OneLook Dictionary Search

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Latin

Participle

miserite

  1. vocative masculine singular of miseritus
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