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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Native manganese disulphid occurring in reddish-brown isometric crystals, isomorphous with pyrite.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) Native sulphide of manganese, a reddish brown or brownish black mineral.
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- noun mineralogy A
manganese sulfide mineral , MnS2, that forms reddish-brown or blackoctahedral crystals .
Etymologies
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Hauer + -ite, after Austrian geologists Joseph and Franz Ritter von Hauer.
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