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fuchsite

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fuchs⋅ite

[fyook-sahyt, fook-]
–noun Mineralogy.
a bright green variety of muscovite having chromium in place of some of the aluminum.

Origin:
1835–45; < G Fuchsit; named after J. N. von Fuchs, 19th-century German geologist; see -ite 1
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