Well attestedNamed from the place
anilite
noun · first attested 1969
Machine matching regularly sends this name to the ruined Armenian city of Ani; the real Ani is a copper mine in northern Japan.
A copper sulfide mineral, Cu7S4, closely related to digenite.
Record
- Relationship
- Named from the place
- Confidence
- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 1969
- Part of speech
- noun
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Ani mine
- In English
anilite
N. Morimoto, K. Koto and Y. Shimazaki described anilite in American Mineralogist in 1969 from the Ani copper mine in Akita Prefecture. Koto and Morimoto published its crystal structure the following year. The type material is held at the National Science Museum in Tokyo.
Japan
All 18 entries 17 more words from Japan
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