Well attestedNamed from the place
betpakdalite
noun · first attested 1961
Named for a desert the size of a small country, though it came from a single tungsten pit inside it.
A lemon-yellow hydrated iron molybdoarsenate found in oxidized tungsten and molybdenum ores.
46.0333°N 70.2000°E · Q1359850
Record
- Relationship
- Named from the place
- Confidence
- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 1961
- Part of speech
- noun
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- Step 1
Betpak-Dala
- In English
betpakdalite
L. P. Ermilova and V. M. Senderova described betpakdalite in 1961 from the oxidation zone of the Kara-Oba tungsten deposit in the Betpak-Dala semidesert of central Kazakhstan. The species was redefined in 2010 as the root name of a group, and the original mineral is now betpakdalite-CaCa.