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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A hard, compact variety of the serpentine species antigorite. countable, uncountable

Synonyms

All synonyms

tangiwaite

Etymology

Coined in 1850 by James Dwight Dana in honor of George Bowen, who originally analysed it, + -ite.

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