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Named in 1850 by James Dwight Dana in honour of Jöns Jakob Berzelius (1779-1848), Swedish chemist and the inventor of chemical symbol notation. Berzelius + an + -ite
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
berzelianite
Today it means: An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing copper and selenium. Full definition →