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Webster 1913 Edition


gahnite

gahn′ite

(gän′īt)
,
Noun.
[Named after
Gahn
, a Swedish chemist.]
(Min.)
Zinc spinel; automolite.

Webster 1828 Edition


Gahnite

G'AHNITE

,
Noun.
[from Gahn, the discoverer.] A mineral, called also automalite and octahedral corundum. It is always crystallized in regular octahedrons, or in tetrahedrons with truncated angles.

Definition 2024


gahnite

gahnite

English

Noun

gahnite (countable and uncountable, plural gahnites)

  1. (mineralogy) A rare mineral ZnAl2O4 in the spinel group.

Translations

  1. Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine W. Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig: Dana's new mineralogy, John Wiley & Sons, 1997

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