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wulfenite

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
wulfen-ite
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An orange mineral, lead molybdate, PbMoO₄, found in lead veins.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From German Wulfen + -ite, for Austrian mineralogist Franz X. von Wulfen (1728-1805), named in 1841.

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Inflected Forms

wulfenites (plural)

Questions

What does wulfenite mean?
An orange mineral, lead molybdate, PbMoO₄, found in lead veins.
Where does wulfenite come from?
From German Wulfen + -ite, for Austrian mineralogist Franz X. von Wulfen (1728-1805), named in 1841.

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