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wulfenite

wul·fe·nite

uncommon

noun

1.

a yellow to orange or brown mineral used as a molybdenum ore

Origin

From Wulfen + -ite, for Austrian mineralogist Franz X. von Wulfen (1728-1805), named in 1841.

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