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Named after the daughter of Austrian mineralogist Gustav Tschermak von Seysenegg (1836-1927), Silvia Hillebrand, + -lite.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
silvialite
Today it means: A tetragonal-dipyramidal mineral containing aluminum, calcium, carbon, oxygen, silicon, sodium, and sulfur. Full definition →