pharmacolite

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek φάρμακον (phármakon, “drug, medicine, poison”) and λίθος (líthos, “stone”), for being an arsenic-bearing mineral.

Noun

pharmacolite (usually uncountable, plural pharmacolites)

  1. (mineralogy) A monoclinic-domatic mineral containing arsenic, calcium, hydrogen, and oxygen.

Further reading

  • David Barthelmy (1997–2026), “Pharmacolite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
  • “pharmacolite”, in Mindat.org, Keswick, Va.: Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2026.

Anagrams

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.