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From Perry + -ite, named after American newspaperman and leading private collector of meteorites Stuart Hoffman Perry (1874–1957).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal gray white mineral containing iron, nickel, phosphorus, and silicon. Full definition →
From Perry + -ite, named after American newspaperman and leading private collector of meteorites Stuart Hoffman Perry (1874–1957).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.