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moissanite Min.|ˈmɔɪs-, ˈmwasənaɪt|
[f. the name of H. Moissan (1852–1907), French chemist: see -ite1.]
A green (sometimes black or bluish) silicon carbide, SiC, with metallic lustre, which is known only from the meteoric iron of Canyon Diablo, Arizona, and is made artificially as carborundum.
1905G. F. Kunz in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. XIX. 397 As this is the first instance in which this compound [sc. carborundum] has been proved to occur in nature, and therefore, as a mineral, is entitled to a distinct mineralogical name, it would seem that the name of Professor Moissan himself should be associated with it. I would, therefore, propose for it the name of Moissanite. 1968I. Kostov Mineral. 105 Artificial moissanite is called carborundum. |