misawite

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English

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Etymology

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Named after Japanese scientist T. Misawa, an author of The mechanism of atmospheric rusting and the effect of Cu and P on the rust formation of low alloy steels (1971) and The mechanism of atmospheric rusting and the protective rust on low alloy steel (1974),[1] with the suffix -ite.

Noun

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misawite (plural misawites)

  1. δ-FeOOH, a compound said to be found on the iron pillar of Delhi

References

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  1. ^ R. Balasubramaniam (2001) “New insights on the 1600 year-old corrosion resistant Delhi iron pillar”, in Indian Journal of History of Science[1]