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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[From C.W.

Scheele

, a Swedish chemist.]

(Min.)

Calcium tungstate, a mineral of a white or pale yellowish color and of the tetragonal system of crystallization.

Scheelite

scheelite ‎(countable and uncountable, plural scheelites)

(mineralogy) A mineral composed of calcium tungstate, with the chemical formula Ca W O₄; an important tungsten ore.

mineral

↑ James D. Dana: Dana's System of Mineralogy. Volume II, seventh edition, revised by Charles Palache, Harry Berman, and Clifford Frondel. John Wiley & Sons, 1951