witherite

See also: Witherite and withérite

English

Witherite

Etymology

After the English physician and mineralogist William Withering (1741-1799) in 1790.^[1]

Noun

witherite (countable and uncountable, plural witherites)

(mineralogy) A yellow-grey mineral form of barium carbonate, Ba C O₃

Translations

mineral

Catalan: witherita
Dutch: witheriet
French: withérite (fr)
German: witherit
Hungarian: witherit
Italian: witherite

Norwegian:
Nynorsk: witheritt
Occitan: whiterita
Polish: witeryt m
Portuguese: whiterita
Spanish: witherita f

References

“Witherite” in David Barthelmy, Webmineral Mineralogy Database, 1997–.
witherite 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

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