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Named in honour of Aldo Giuseppe Roggiani (1914-1986), Italian science teacher who found the first specimen and an expert on the mineralogy of the Ossola region Roggiani + -ite
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
roggianite
Today it means: A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal mineral containing aluminum, beryllium, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon. Full definition →