The story
- Latin · derived fromstannum“tin”
- English todaystannomicrolite
For its composition, a tin-dominant member of the microlite group, from Latin stannum (“tin”). Discredited as the name of one specific species of mineral; as a mineral, most likely refers to oxystannomicrolite.
Words from the same roots
Latinstannum all →
stannousgalinstanstanenestannarystanno-stannum
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.