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From Gerhardt + -ite, after Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (1816-1856), a chemist who first prepared the artificial compound.
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Today it means: An orthorhombic-disphenoidal mineral containing copper, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen. Full definition →
From Gerhardt + -ite, after Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (1816-1856), a chemist who first prepared the artificial compound.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.