rinkite

Meaning

Noun

• A monoclinic-sphenoidal mineral containing calcium, cerium, fluorine, niobium, oxygen, silicon, sodium, and titanium.

Origin

• Named in 1884 by Johannes Theodor Lorenzen in honour of Henrik Johannes Rink (1819-1893), Director of the Royal Greenland Board of Trade at the time.
• Rink +
• In 2016, the IMA renamed rinkite to rinkite-(Ce), as opposed to rinkite-(Y).