Etymology

guérinite

Today it means: A colourless monoclinic mineral containing calcium, astatine, hydrogen and oxygen. Full definition →

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From French Guérin + -ite; named by the Russian mineralogist Yevgenii Ivanovich Nefedov (1910–1976) in 1961 in honour of Henri Guérin (1906–1995), chemist at Paris-Sud University, France, who first synthesized the compound.

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