Etymology

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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 →

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The story

From Andrews + -ite, after the English chemist Thomas Andrews.

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