berezanskite

English

Etymology

Named after Anatolyi Vladimirovich Berezanskii (born 1948) who mapped the geology of large amounts of remote areas of the Turkestan mountain range, Tajikistan

Berezansk- + -ite

Noun

berezanskite

1. (mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal white mineral containing lithium, oxygen, potassium, silicon, and titanium.

References

• David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Berezanskite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.