Meanings
- uncountablechemistryA monoclinic-prismatic light yellow mineral containing chlorine, lead, oxygen, and vanadium.
Kombatite is bright yellow in color with a light yellow streak.
1986, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, page 5202 more examples
However, later a large number of new minerals were discovered from the manganese and iron ores, such as kombatite, asisite, johninnesite and amaraite.
2004, Gabi Schneider, The roadside geology of Namibia, page 24In ordered structures, vacancies in the PbO blocks have the form of a square (in symesite), or a double square (butterfly-like vacancies in kombatite and sahlinite).
2011, S V Krivovichev, Minerals as Advanced Materials II, page 322
Origin
- Herero[Term?]
- Englishkombatite
From Kombat [Term?] + -ite, after the Kombat Mine in the north-central part of Namibia, from Herero [Term?] (given name).
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