Well attestedNamed from the place
cornwallite
noun · first attested 1846
Cornwall is one of the few places on earth that has lent its name to a mineral twice, in two languages.
An uncommon green copper arsenate mineral, Cu5(AsO4)2(OH)4, forming fibrous crusts.
50.3000°N -4.9000°W · Q23148
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- Relationship
- Named from the place
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- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 1846
- Part of speech
- noun
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- In English
cornwallite
Frantisek Xaver Maximilian Zippe named cornwallite in 1846 for the English county whose copper mines produced it. In 1959 Claringbull, Hey and Davis described a triclinic dimorph from the same ground and called it cornubite, from Cornubia, the Latin name for Cornwall. A third Cornish namesake, kernowite, followed in 2020.
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