Complete Definition of "aragonite"

English
Image:1aragonit, Hiszpania.jpg|thumb|Aragonite
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Etymology
After the province Aragon in Spain, named by Abraham Gottlob Werner in 1790.<ref>Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine W. Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig: Dana's new mineralogy, John Wiley & Sons, 1997</ref>

Noun
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#mineralogy a saline evaporite consisting of anhydrous calcium carbonate; it is dimorphous with calcite

Translations
trans-top|saline evaporate
Estonian: aragoniit
Finnish: aragoniitti
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