crossite

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Etymology

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Cross +‎ -ite, after the American petrologist Charles Whitman Cross.

Noun

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crossite (countable and uncountable, plural crossites)

  1. (mineralogy) An inosilicate double-chain sodic amphibole mineral of the riebeckite group, now discredited.
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