huebnerite

[hyoob-nuh-rahyt or, often, yoob-]

noun

a reddish-brown mineral of the wolframite group, manganese tungstate, MnWO4, a minor ore of tungsten.

Origin of huebnerite

after Adolph Huebner, 19th-century German metallurgist; see -ite¹

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