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From Pain + -ite, after British mineralogist Arthur C. D. Pain.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A very rare orange-red borate mineral consisting mostly of calcium, zirconium, boron, aluminium, and oxygen. Full definition →
From Pain + -ite, after British mineralogist Arthur C. D. Pain.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.