Ankerite
/ˈɑŋkɚˌaɪt/ noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Any of a group of mixed carbonate minerals, principally of calcium with iron, magnesium and manganese. countable, uncountable
"In this second excavation the red ore is more largely mixed with the micaceous specular variety, and also includes large rounded blocks of ankerite and angular fragments of rock."
Example
More examples"In this second excavation the red ore is more largely mixed with the micaceous specular variety, and also includes large rounded blocks of ankerite and angular fragments of rock."
Etymology
After the Austrian mineralogist Matthias Joseph Anker (1771-1843) in 1825 + -ite.