calderite

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noun

A garnet mineral.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

nouncalderite (usually uncountable, plural calderites)

plural calderites

  1. uncountableusuallychemistryA garnet mineral.

Origin

From Calder + -ite, after geologist James Calder.

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