Meanings
nounhuntite (countable and uncountable, plural huntites)
plural huntites
- countableuncountablechemistryA trigonal-trapezohedral mineral containing calcium, carbon, magnesium, and oxygen.
[A] good white is also very precious. It is valued partly because […] the best of it – a clay called huntite – is believed to be the faeces of the Rainbow Snake.
2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre, page 49
Origin
From the name of Walter Frederick Hunt (1882–1975), US mineralogist, + -ite.
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