Etymology

simonite

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simonite · noun1

Simonite (TlHgAs₃S₆), found in Allchar, Macedonia, Yugoslavia, named in 1982 for Simon Engel, son of Peter Engel (b. 1942), a Swiss crystallographer, + -ite

Simonite · noun2

From Simon + -ite.

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