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From Arzruni + -ite, after Andreas Eremeevich Arzruni (1847-1898), Professor of Mineralogy at Aachen, Germany, who first recognized the mineral.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A biaxial orthorhombic sulfate chloride mineral. Full definition →
From Arzruni + -ite, after Andreas Eremeevich Arzruni (1847-1898), Professor of Mineralogy at Aachen, Germany, who first recognized the mineral.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.