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uvarovite

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An emerald-green variety of garnet, Ca3Cr2(SiO4)3, found in chromium deposits.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Chrome-garnet, an emerald-green variety of garnet containing chromium sesquioxid. Also written uwarowite, ouvarovite.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun mineralogy A rare chromium-bearing garnet mineral with a vivid emerald-green colour.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Count Sergei Semenovitch Uvarov, (1785–1855), president of the St. Petersburg Academy.]

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  • hernesheir commented on the word uvarovite

    Repeating this euvocalic mineral name over and over provides no end of amusement.

    June 5, 2010