sillimanite

English

Sillimanite

Etymology

From Silliman +‎ -ite. Named after American chemist and geologist Benjamin Silliman (1779-1864) in 1824.[1]

Noun

sillimanite (countable and uncountable, plural sillimanites)

(mineralogy) A fibrous neosilicate mineral, polymorphic with andalusite and kyanite, with the chemical formula Al₂Si O₅.

Synonyms

Translations

mineral

Dutch: sillimaniet ?
Finnish: sillimaniitti
French: sillimanite (fr) f
German: Sillimanit m
Italian: sillimanite f
Spanish: silimanita f

Further reading

David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Sillimanite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
“sillimanite”, in Mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.

Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine W. Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig: Dana's new mineralogy, John Wiley & Sons, 1997

French

Noun

sillimanite f (plural sillimanites)

(mineralogy) sillimanite

Italian

Noun

sillimanite f (plural sillimaniti)

(mineralogy) sillimanite

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