Magnesite

Origin

Named after its composition in 1807.

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

Noun

magnesite

(countable and uncountable; plural magnesites)

(mineralogy) A form of magnesium carbonate, Mg C O

3, occurring as dolomite (with calcite) but rarely found in the pure state.

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