• Adamite

    Origin 1

    Full definition of adamite

    Noun

    adamite

    (plural adamites)
    1. A descendant of Adam; a human being.

    Origin 2

    Named after French mineralogist Gilbert Joseph Adam (1795-1881) in 1866.

    Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine W. Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig: Dana's new mineralogy, John Wiley & Sons, 1997

    Noun

    noun

    1. (mineral) A zinc arsenate hydroxide mineral, Zn
    2AsO4OH.

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