Etymology

sideromelane

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Today it means: A basaltic glass often found in palagonite tuff. Full definition →

German Sideromelane
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  1. German · borrowed fromSideromelane
  2. English todaysideromelane

Borrowed from German Sideromelane, coined by Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen in 1853.

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