alvite
/ˈalvʌɪt/Mineralogy
noun
A reddish-brown amorphous mineral found in pegmatites which is an altered or metamict variety of zircon, with elevated concentrations of hafnium, rare earths, and radioactive elements.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London. From Danish alvit from the name of Alve, a locality in the Arendal district of southern Norway, where the mineral was first discovered + -it.
- proton donator
- proton donor
- protonema
- protonemal
- protonematal
- protoneolithic
- protonephridial
- protonephridium
- protonephron
- protonephros
- proton gradiometer
- protonic
- protonically
- proto-Nile
- proton magnetometer
- protonmotive
- protonmotive force
- protonosphere
- protonotarial
- protonotariat
- protonotary
- Protonotary Apostolic
- Protonotary Apostolical
- proton-precession magnetometer
- proton synchrotron