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From Bragg + -ite, named after Sir William Henry Bragg and Professor William Lawrence Bragg, pioneers in the X-ray investigations of crystals.
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Today it means: A tetragonal-dipyramidal steel gray mineral containing nickel, palladium, platinum, and sulfur. Full definition →
From Bragg + -ite, named after Sir William Henry Bragg and Professor William Lawrence Bragg, pioneers in the X-ray investigations of crystals.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.