hawleyite

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noun

A rare cadmium sulfide mineral in the sphalerite group.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

nounhawleyite (uncountable)
  1. uncountablechemistryA rare cadmium sulfide mineral in the sphalerite group.

Origin

From Hawley + -ite, after James Edwin Hawley.

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