smithsonite

English

smithsonite

Etymology

Named after James Smithson (1754-1829) in 1832.[1]

Noun

smithsonite (countable and uncountable, plural smithsonites)

(mineralogy) A mineral form of zinc carbonate, Zn C O₃, mined as an ore of zinc or as an ornamental stone.

Synonyms

zinc spar

Translations

mineral

Arabic: سميثسونيت‎
Armenian: սմիթսոնիտ (smitʿsonit)
Basque: smithsonita
Bulgarian: смитсонит m (smitsonit)
Catalan: smithsonita f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 菱锌矿 (zh), 菱鋅礦 (zh) (língxīnkuàng)
Czech: smithsonit m
Dutch: smithsoniet
Finnish: sinkkisälpä, smithsoniitti
French: smithsonite (fr) f
German: Smithsonit
Greek: σμιθσονίτης f (smithsonítis)
Hebrew: סמיתסוניט‎
Italian: smithsonite f

Japanese: 菱亜鉛鉱 (りょうあえんこう, ryōaenkō)
Lithuanian: smitsonitas
Norwegian: smithsonitt, sinkspat
Persian: اسمیت زونیت‎
Polish: smithsonit (pl) m
Portuguese: smithsonita f
Russian: смитсони́т (ru) m (smitsonít), ци́нковый шпа́т m (cínkovyj špát)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: смитсо̀нӣт m

Roman: smitsònīt (sh) m
Slovak: smithsonit m
Spanish: smithsonita f
Swedish: zinkspat c, galmeja, smithsonit
Ukrainian: смітсоніт m (smitsonit)
Vietnamese: xmitxonit, smithsonit

Further reading

“Smithsonite” in David Barthelmy, Webmineral Mineralogy Database, 1997–.
“smithsonite”, in 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

Anagrams

omnitheists

French

Noun

smithsonite f (countable and uncountable, plural smithsonites)

(mineralogy) smithsonite

Italian

Noun

smithsonite f (countable or uncountable, plural smithsoniti)

(mineralogy) smithsonite

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