alstonite
/ˈɔːlst(ə)nʌɪt/ /ˈɒlst(ə)nʌɪt/Mineralogy
noun
A mineral consisting of a double carbonate of calcium and barium, typically occurring as strongly striated colourless or white pseudohexagonal pyramids.
- Chemical formula: BaCa(CO3)2. Crystal system: triclinic..
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal. From the name of AlstonMoor, an area of moorland in Cumbria, England, where the mineral was discovered + -ite, after German Alstonit.
- first youth
- firth
- Firth, J. R.
- fir tree
- fisc
- nitrosating
- nitrosation
- nitrosative
- nitrosobacterium
- nitroso dye
- nitroso group
- Nitrosomonas
- nitrosonium
- nitrosourea
- nitro-substituted
- nitro-substitution
- nitro-sulfurous
- nitrosulphureous
- nitro-sulphurous
- nitrosyl
- nitrosylate
- nitrosylated
- nitrosylation
- nitrosyl chloride
- nitrosylhaemoglobin