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Webster 1913 Edition

gahnite

gahn′ite

(gän′īt)
,
Noun.
[Named after
Gahn
, a Swedish chemist.]
(Min.)
Zinc spinel; automolite.

Webster 1828 Edition

Gahnite

G'AHNITE

,
Noun.
[from Gahn, the discoverer.] A mineral, called also automalite and octahedral corundum. It is always crystallized in regular octahedrons, or in tetrahedrons with truncated angles.

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