"crossite" meaning in English

See crossite in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: crossites [plural]
Etymology: From Cross + -ite, after the American petrologist Charles Whitman Cross. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|Cross|ite}} Cross + -ite Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} crossite (countable and uncountable, plural crossites)
  1. (mineralogy) An inosilicate double-chain sodic amphibole mineral of the riebeckite group, now discredited. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Minerals

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