fuchsite

[ fyook-sahyt, fook- ]

nounMineralogy.
  1. a bright green variety of muscovite having chromium in place of some of the aluminum.

Origin of fuchsite

1
1835–45; <German Fuchsit; named after J. N. von Fuchs, 19th-century German geologist; see -ite1

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