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After Colin Osborne Hutton, New Zealand-American mineralogist, Hutton + -ite
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing oxygen, silicon, and thorium. Full definition →
After Colin Osborne Hutton, New Zealand-American mineralogist, Hutton + -ite
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.