Definitions For Smithsonite

Noun

SMITHSONITE. (countable and uncountable, plural SMITHSONITEs) (mineral) A mineral form of zinc carbonate, zinc, zncarbon, coxygen, o3, mined as an ore of zinc or as an ornamental stone.

Synonyms

zinc spar

Translations

Arabic: سميثسونيت Armenian: սմիթսոնիտ Basque: smithsonita Bulgarian: смитсони, m, alt=смитсонит, sc=Cyrl Catalan: smithsonita, f Chinese: : Mandarin: 菱鋅礦, tr=língxīnkuàng Czech: smithsonit, m Dutch: smithsoniet Finnish: sinkkisälpä, smithsoniitti French: smithsonite, f German: Smithsonit, Zinkspat, n Greek: σμιθσονίτης, f Hebrew: סמיתסוניט Italian: smithsonite, f Japanese: 菱亜鉛鉱 (りょうあえんこう, ryōaenkō, sc=Jpan) Lithuanian: smitsonitas Norwegian: smithsonitt, sinkspat Persian: اسمیت زونیت, sc=fa-Arab Polish: smithsonit, m Portuguese: smithsonita, f Russian: смитсони́т, m, sc=Cyrl, ци́нковый шпа́т, m, sc=Cyrl Serbo-Croatian: : Cyrillic: смитсо̀нӣт, m, sc=Cyrl : Roman: smitsònīt, m Slovak: smithsonit, m Spanish: smithsonita, f Swedish: zinkspat, c, galmeja, smithsonit Ukrainian: смітсоніт, m, sc=Cyrl Vietnamese: xmitxonit, smithsonit

Etymology

Named after James Smithson (1754-1829) in 1832.Richard 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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