Aragonite
Origin
Aragon + -ite, after the province in Spain, named by Abraham Gottlob Werner 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
Full definition of aragonite
Noun
aragonite
(countable and uncountable; plural aragonites)- (mineral) A saline evaporite consisting of anhydrous calcium carbonate with the chemical formula CaCO3