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 Topic: Mineral names in different languages and their meaning |
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| jm Replies: 16 Views: 21234 |
 Forum: Minerals and Mineralogy Posted: Nov 21, 2017 02:38 Subject: Re: Mineral names in different languages and their meaning |
| Hi James
Not so. We also use "specularite" ("especularita" in Spanish) to refer to hematite crystallized in the form of brilliant plates ("mirrored", since"speculum ... |
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| Topic: Mineral names in different languages and their meaning |
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| jm Replies: 16 Views: 21234 |
Forum: Minerals and Mineralogy Posted: Nov 20, 2017 07:14 Subject: Re: Mineral names in different languages and their meaning |
| Hi Tobi
Effectively, there are a lot of popular names for minerals, in Spanish as in many other languages. Surprisingly, some of them arise from German. For example, we call sphalerite as "blend ... |
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