orangite

See also: Orangite

English

Etymology

orange +‎ -ite

Noun

orangite (countable and uncountable, plural orangites)

  1. (mineralogy) An orange-yellow variety of thorite, found in Norway.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “orangite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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

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