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schwertmannite

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
schw-ert-man-nite
IPA
24
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An opaque tetragonal iron-oxyhydroxysulfate mineral.

Uncountable

Etymology

From Schwertmann + -ite, after Udo Schwertmann (1927–2016), German soil scientist.

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Inflected Forms

schwertmannites (plural)

Questions

What does schwertmannite mean?
An opaque tetragonal iron-oxyhydroxysulfate mineral.
Where does schwertmannite come from?
From Schwertmann + -ite, after Udo Schwertmann (1927–2016), German soil scientist.

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