Well attestedNamed from the place
ohmilite
noun · first attested 1973
The type locality no longer exists as a place name: the town was folded into a neighboring city in 2005.
A hydrous strontium titanium silicate.
Record
- Relationship
- Named from the place
- Confidence
- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 1973
- Part of speech
- noun
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- Step 1
Ōmi
- In English
ohmilite
Mitsuo Komatsu, Kohei Chihara and Takamitsu Mizota described ohmilite in 1973 from Ōmi in Niigata Prefecture, where it occurs in an amphibolite and albitite dike cutting serpentinite. Ōmi was a town in Nishikubiki District until it was absorbed into Itoigawa in 2005. The same stretch of coast is the source of Japan's jade.
Japan
All 18 entries 17 more words from Japan
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