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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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Etymology

Named after Swedish chemist Johan Gottlieb Gahn (1745-1818) in 1807.[1]

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