wulfenite

See also: Wulfenite and wulfénite

English

Wulfenite

Etymology

Wulfen +‎ -ite, for Austrian mineralogist Franz Xavier von Wulfen (1728-1805), named in 1841.[1]

Noun

wulfenite (countable and uncountable, plural wulfenites)

(mineralogy) An orange mineral, lead molybdate, Pb Mo O₄, found in lead veins.

Translations

a mineral, lead molybdate

Finnish: wulfeniitti
French: wulfénite (fr) f
German: Wulfenit (de) m
Italian: wulfenite f

Portuguese: wulfenita f
Spanish: wulfenita f

Further reading

“Wulfenite” in David Barthelmy, Webmineral Mineralogy Database, 1997–.
“wulfenite”, 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

Italian

Noun

wulfenite f (plural wulfeniti)

(mineralogy) wulfenite

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