Definitions For Jarosite

Noun

JAROSITE. (countable and uncountable, plural JAROSITEs) (mineral) A mineral with rhombohedral crystals, potassium, kiron, fe33+(sulfur, soxygen, o4)2(Ohydrogen, h)6.

Derived terms

ammoniojarosite natrojarosite plumbojarosite

Etymology

After the place Jaroso ravine in spain, named in 1852.James D. Dana: Dana's System of Mineralogy. Volume II, seventh edition, revised by Charles Palache, Harry Berman, and Clifford Frondel. John Wiley & Sons, 1951Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine W. Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig: Dana's new mineralogy, John Wiley & Sons, 1997

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The word Jarosite is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends

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