spessartine
/ˈspɛsətiːn
/noun [mass noun]
A form of garnet containing manganese and aluminium, occurring as orange-red to dark brown crystals.Another garnet, a mixture of pyrope and spessartine, is called malaya garnet in the gem trade....
- There were shops full of green and purple fluorite, ferberite and arsenopyrite, and spessartine and stibnite.
- It should also be noted that almandine, grossular, and spessartine are the preferred spellings.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from French, from Spessart, the name of a district in NW Bavaria, + -ine4.