bowenite
[ boh-uh-nahyt ]
nounMineralogy.
a compact and dense variety of green serpentine resembling jade.
Origin of bowenite
11840–50; named after G. T. Bowen, 19th-century American geologist; see -ite1
Words Nearby bowenite
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How to use bowenite in a sentence
The green jade-like stone known in New Zealand as tangiwai is bowenite, a translucent serpentine with enclosures of magnesite.
The mineral called bowenite, at one time supposed to be jade, is a hard and tough variety of serpentine.
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