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Named achavalite in 1939 after Luis Achával (1870-1938), civil engineer and Professor at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Renamed achávalite by the IMA in 2015. Achával + -ite
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
achávalite
Today it means: A dark grey hexagonal mineral containing iron and selenium. Full definition →