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Named in 2002 by Billy P. Glass, Shaobin Liu and Peter B. Leavens in honour of Alan F. Reid, who first produced the phase in high-pressure laboratory experiments in 1969. Reid + -ite
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reidite
Today it means: A tetragonal-dipyramidal white mineral containing oxygen, silicon, and zirconium. Full definition →