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From Marsh + -ite, after the Australian mineral collector C. W. Marsh, who first described it.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: An isometric-hextetrahedral mineral containing copper and iodine. Full definition →
From Marsh + -ite, after the Australian mineral collector C. W. Marsh, who first described it.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.