Etymology

thortveitite

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Today it means: A scandium yttrium silicate mineral, greyish-green, black or grey in colour, the primary source of scandium. Full definition →

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From Norwegian Thortveit + -ite, after Norwegian engineer Olaus Thortveit.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.