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noun
A monoclinic-prismatic red mineral containing arsenic, mercury, sulphur, and thallium.
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Topics: chemistry, geography, geology, mineralogy, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
Synonym of Simonian.
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Synonyms: Simonian
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History
Simonite (TlHgAs3S6), found in Allchar, Macedonia, Yugoslavia, named in 1982 for Simon Engel, son of Peter Engel (b. 1942), a Swiss crystallographer, + -ite
From Simon + -ite.
