• 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)
    1. (mineral) A saline evaporite consisting of anhydrous calcium carbonate with the chemical formula CaCO3
    it is dimorphous with calcite.

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