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From Andrews + -ite, after the English chemist Thomas Andrews.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A now-discredited mineral, reported in Cornwall and later shown to be a mixture of hentschelite and rockbridgeite, with minor chalcosiderite. Full definition →
From Andrews + -ite, after the English chemist Thomas Andrews.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.