Meanings
nouniquiqueite (uncountable)
- uncountablechemistryA trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal yellow mineral containing boron, chromium, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, potassium, and sodium.
Carlos ruizite.[…]As platy crystals, up to 200 μm, in iquiqueite found within yellow nitrate ore samples of mainly nitratine, halite and darapskite from the Zapiga district, Tarapacá Province, Chile.
1996, Mineralogical Magazine, volume 60, page 527
Origin
From Iquique (“a place name”) + -ite, after the city of Iquique, Chile.
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