hawleyite

English

Etymology

Hawley +‎ -ite, after James Edwin Hawley.

Noun

hawleyite (uncountable)

  1. (mineralogy) A rare cadmium sulfide mineral in the sphalerite group.

Further reading
  • “Hawleyite” in David Barthelmy, Webmineral Mineralogy Database, 1997–.
  • “hawleyite”, in Mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, accessed 29 August 2016.
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