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by⋅town⋅ite

[bahy-tou-nahyt]
–noun
a blue to dark-gray mineral near the anorthite end of the plagioclase feldspar group.

Origin:
1865–70; named after Bytown (old name of Ottawa, Canada), where first found; see -ite 1
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