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Noun.

[F.

roméine

. So calledafter the French mineralogist

Romé

L’Isle.]

(Min.)

A mineral of a hyacinth or honey-yellow color, occuring in square octahedrons. It is an antimonate of calcium.

romeite ‎(countable and uncountable, plural romeites)

(mineralogy) A yellow hexoctahedral calcium antimonate mineral with the chemical formula (Ca,Fe,Mn,Na)₂(Sb,Ti)₂O₆(O,OH,F).