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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
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berezanskite
Today it means: A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal white mineral containing lithium, oxygen, potassium, silicon, and titanium. Full definition →