Definitions For Witherite

Noun

WITHERITE. (countable and uncountable, plural WITHERITEs) (mineral) A yellow-grey mineral form of barium carbonate, barium, bacarbon, coxygen, o3

Translations

Catalan: witherita Dutch: witheriet Finnish: witheriitti French: withérite German: witherit Hungarian: witherit Italian: witherite Norwegian: : Nynorsk: witheritt Occitan: whiterita Polish: witeryt, m Portuguese: whiterita Spanish: witherita, f

References

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Etymology

After the English physician and mineralogist William Withering (1741-1799) in 1790.Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine W. Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig: Dana's new mineralogy, John Wiley & Sons, 1997