witherite
English edit
Etymology edit
After the English physician and mineralogist William Withering (1741-1799) in 1790.[1]
Noun edit
witherite (countable and uncountable, plural witherites)
- (mineralogy) A yellow-grey mineral form of barium carbonate, BaCO3
Translations edit
mineral
References edit
- David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Witherite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
- “witherite”, in Mindat.org[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.
- ^ Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine W. Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig: Dana's new mineralogy, John Wiley & Sons, 1997