gahnite

English

Etymology

Named after Swedish chemist Johan Gottlieb Gahn (1745-1818) in 1807.[1]

Noun

gahnite (countable and uncountable, plural gahnites)

  1. (mineralogy) A rare mineral ZnAl2O4 in the spinel group.

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Further reading
  • “Gahnite” in David Barthelmy, Webmineral Mineralogy Database, 1997–.
  • “gahnite”, 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

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