cotunnite

[ kuh-tuhn-ahyt ]

noun
  1. a soft, white to yellowish mineral, lead chloride, PbCl2, that forms as an alteration product of galena.

Origin of cotunnite

1
1825–35; <German Cotunnit, after Domenico Cotugno, in Latinized form Cotunnius (1736–1822), Italian anatomist; see -ite1

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