birnessite
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English
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Etymology
[edit]Birness + -ite, after Birness, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, where it was first described.
Noun
[edit]birnessite (plural birnessites)
- (mineralogy) A soft mineral, mostly containing manganese oxides, that occurs in manganese nodules.
Further reading
[edit]- David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Birnessite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
- “birnessite”, in Mindat.org[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.