monomineral

adjective

mono·​mineral

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variants or monomineralic

"+¦minə¦ralik

: composed wholly or almost wholly of a single mineral species

Word History

Etymology

International Scientific Vocabulary mon- + mineral, mineralic (from mineral entry 1 + -ic); originally formed as German monomineralisch

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