bowenite

bowenite [boh-uh-nahyt] ExamplesWord Origin noun Mineralogy.

1. a compact and dense variety of green serpentine resembling jade.

Origin of bowenite 1840–50; named after G. T. Bowen, 19th-century American geologist; see -ite1 Examples from the Web for bowenite Historical Examples of bowenite

The green jade-like stone known in New Zealand as tangiwai is bowenite, a translucent serpentine with enclosures of magnesite.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 2

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