agardite

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Etymology[edit]

From Agard +‎ -ite, after French geologist Jules Agard.

Noun[edit]

Agardite-(Ce) in the form of pistachio-green acicular crystals on contrasting matrix

agardite (countable and uncountable, plural agardites)

  1. (mineralogy) Any of a group of copper arsenate minerals that contain varying proportions of several rare earth elements such as cerium, neodymium, lanthanum and yttrium.