apatite

See also: Apatite

Contents

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek [Term?] (“deceit”), since its form and colour are deceptive.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈæp.ə.taɪt/
• Homophone: appetite

Noun

apatite (countable and uncountable, plural apatites)

1. (mineralogy) A calcium fluoride phosphate of variable composition, sometimes used in the manufacture of fertilizer.
   • 1967, Duncan McConnell et al., "Infrared Absorption of Carbonate Apatite," Science, New Series, vol. 155, no. 3762, p. 608,

     We had prepared, by precipitation methods, finely divided crystalline apatites that were similar in crystal size and x-ray diffraction profile to bone apatite.

Derived terms

• carbapatite
• chlorapatite
• fluorapatite
• hydroxyapatite

Translations

type of mineral

• Bulgarian: апатит (bg) m (apatit)
• Catalan: apatita f
• Czech: apatit
• Dutch: apatiet
• Estonian: apatiit
• Finnish: apatiitti (fi)
• French: apatite (fr)
• German: Apatit (de)
• Greek: απατίτης (el) m (apatítis)
• Hebrew: אפטיט‎‎ (ʔapaṭīṭ)
• Hungarian: apatit (hu)
• Irish: apaitít f
• Italian: apatite (it)
• Japanese: 燐灰石 (rinkaiseki)

• Korean: 인회석 (ko) (inhoesŏg)
• Lithuanian: apatitas
• Norwegian: apatitt
• Polish: apatyt (pl)
• Portuguese: apatita f
• Romanian: apatit (ro)
• Russian: апати́т (ru) m (apatít)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: апа̀тӣт m

  Latin: apàtīt (sh) m

• Slovak: apatit (sk)
• Spanish: apatita f
• Swedish: apatit (sv)
• Ukrainian: апатит (uk) (apatyt)

See also

• Not to be confused with appetite

Further reading

• “Apatite” in David Barthelmy, Webmineral Mineralogy Database^[1], 1997–.
• “apatite”, in Mindat.org‎^[2], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, accessed 29 August 2016.

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Italian

Noun

apatite f (plural apatiti)

1. (mineralogy) apatite