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Named after German professor of crystallography at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Germany, Walter Hans Eysel (1935–1999), + -ite.
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Today it means: An orthorhombic mineral containing gallium, germanium, hydrogen, iron, and oxygen. Full definition →
Named after German professor of crystallography at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Germany, Walter Hans Eysel (1935–1999), + -ite.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.