wilcoxite

Meaning

Noun

A triclinic mineral containing aluminum, fluorine, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, and sulfur.

Origin

Wilcox + -ite, after William Wilcox (?-1880), discoverer of the Wilcox district of New Mexico in 1879.

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