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)

  1. (mineralogy) A saline evaporite consisting of anhydrous calcium carbonate with the chemical formula CaCO3; it is dimorphous with calcite.

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Further reading
  • “Aragonite” in David Barthelmy, Webmineral Mineralogy Database, 1997–.
  • “aragonite”, in Mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, accessed 29 August 2016.
  1. Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine W. Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig: Dana's new mineralogy, John Wiley & Sons, 1997

French

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Noun

aragonite f (plural aragonites)

  1. (mineralogy) aragonite

Italian

Noun

aragonite f (plural aragoniti)

  1. (mineralogy) aragonite
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