guérinite

Meaning

Noun

A colourless monoclinic mineral containing calcium, astatine, hydrogen and oxygen.

Origin

Named by Yevgeny I Nefedov in 1961 in honour of Henri Guérin (born 1906), chemist at Paris-Sud University, France, who first synthesized the compound.
Guérin +

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