simonite

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English

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Etymology

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Simonite (TlHgAs3S6), found in Allchar, Macedonia, Yugoslavia, named in 1982 for Simon Engel, son of Peter Engel (b. 1942), a Swiss crystallographer, + -ite

Noun

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simonite

  1. (mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic red mineral containing arsenic, mercury, sulphur, and thallium.

References

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  • David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Simonite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.

Wikipedia, Dec. 2022.

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