fowlerite

English

Etymology

Fowler +‎ -ite, after Dr. Samuel Fowler.

Noun

fowlerite (usually uncountable, plural fowlerites)

  1. (mineralogy) A variety of rhodonite that contains zinc.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 fowlerite in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Further reading
  • David Barthelmy (1997–2023), “Fowlerite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
  • “fowlerite”, in Mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2023.
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