quincite
/ˈkwɪnsʌɪt/(also quincyite, quincyte, quinzite) Mineralogy
noun
Originally: a mineral substance composed chiefly of sepiolite coloured pink by organic pigments, found in limestone, chalcedony, and opal. Later also: a variety of common opal coloured pink by this substance; (more widely) any pink opal.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Charles Shepard (1804–1886). From French quincyte from name of Quincy, a locality in Cher, France, where the mineral was discovered + -ite.
- protoneolithic
- protonephridial
- protonephridium
- protonephron
- protonephros
- proton gradiometer
- protonic
- protonically
- proto-Nile
- proton magnetometer
- protonmotive
- protonmotive force
- protonosphere
- protonotarial
- protonotariat
- protonotary
- Protonotary Apostolic
- Protonotary Apostolical
- proton-precession magnetometer
- proton synchrotron
- protonym
- protonymph
- protonymphal
- protonymphon
- proto-ocean