fayalite

English

Etymology

Fayal (“Faial Island in the Azores”) +‎ -ite. Named in 1840.[1]

Noun

fayalite (countable and uncountable, plural fayalites)

  1. (mineralogy) Yellow, olive green, brown or black mineral with orthorhombic crystals of the olivine group, Fe2SiO4.

Translations

References
  1. Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine W. Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig: Dana's new mineralogy, John Wiley & Sons, 1997

Further reading
  • David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Fayalite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
  • “fayalite”, in Mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.

French

Noun

fayalite f (plural fayalites)

  1. (mineralogy) fayalite

Italian

Noun

fayalite f (plural fayaliti)

  1. (mineralogy) fayalite
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