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From Perrault (“Canadian geologist Guy Perrault (1927-2002”) + -ite.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A monoclinic-sphenoidal orange brown mineral containing barium, calcium, fluorine, hydrogen, iron, manganese, niobium, oxygen, potassium, silicon, sodium, and titanium. Full definition →
From Perrault (“Canadian geologist Guy Perrault (1927-2002”) + -ite.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.