fayalite

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English[edit]

Fayalite
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Etymology[edit]

Fayal (“Faial Island in the Azores”) +‎ -ite. Named in 1840.[1]

Noun[edit]

fayalite (countable and uncountable, plural fayalites)

  1. (mineralogy) Yellow, olive green, brown or black mineral with orthorhombic crystals of the olivine group, Fe2SiO4.

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References[edit]

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

Further reading[edit]

  • David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Fayalite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
  • “fayalite”, in Mindat.org‎[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.

French[edit]

Noun[edit]

fayalite f (plural fayalites)

  1. (mineralogy) fayalite

Italian[edit]

Noun[edit]

fayalite f (plural fayaliti)

  1. (mineralogy) fayalite
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