zinnwaldite

[ tsin-vahl-tahyt ]

nounMineralogy.
  1. a yellow-brown variety of mica containing iron, found with tin ores.

Origin of zinnwaldite

1
1860–65; named after Zinnwald, village in the Czech Republic where first found; see -ite1

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