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Identified by Berzelius its name is related to the Greek word “xenos”, meaning stranger, because the crystals were not discovered until later and it was long called Cenotime. It forms a series with the chernovite and is a rare earth phosphate, more often Yttrium but
Its name, coming from Latin, was given by Werner and it means bright because the surfaces of its divisions are very bright. Amongst the pyroxenes, augite is a ferromagnesian silicate low in calcium. The fassaite variety is low in iron, the jeffersonite variety is rich
Its name comes from the Arabic “zargoun” muting in “jargon”, meaning vermilion. It is known since antiquity, but under different names. It may be colorless (rare), but also yellow, brown, orange, blue to blue-violet (called starlite) … and mostly brown green and dark red, the
