"glendonite" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: glendonites [plural]
Etymology: Named after the mineral's type locality, Glendon, New South Wales. Head templates: {{en-noun}} glendonite (plural glendonites)
  1. (geology, mineralogy) A pseudomorph of ikaite. Categories (topical): Geology, Minerals Translations (pseudomorph of ikaite): glendonite [feminine] (French), Glendonit [masculine] (German)

Inflected forms

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