English

Miserite

Noun

miserite ‎(uncountable)

1. (mineralogy) A lilac-pink or red triclinic-pinacoidal rare-earth mineral of interest also for cleaning up radioactive and other wastes and for ceramics.
   • 1989, Joseph Anthony Mandarino, ‎Violet Anderson, Monteregian Treasures: The Minerals of Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, p. 141:

     Miserite is rare at Mont Saint-Hilaire, but may be locally abundant.

References

1. ↑ Schallert,Waldemar T. (1950), “Miserite from Arkansas: a renaming of natroxonotlite”, in American Mineralogist, volume 35, page 911

Latin

Participle

miserite

1. vocative masculine singular of miseritus