Binghamite

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A type of agate stone found in Minnesota. uncountable

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cuyunitecuyunitesilkstonesilkstone

Etymology

From Bingham + -ite, after William Bingham, a lapidary, who discovered it in 1936.

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