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Definition of Willemite

Willemite
Willemite Wil"lem*ite, n. [From Willem I., king of the Netherlands.] (Min.) A silicate of zinc, usually occurring massive and of a greenish yellow color, also in reddish crystals (troostite) containing manganese.

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- Willemite is a zinc silicate mineral (Zn2SiO4) and a minor ore of zinc. It is highly fluorescent (green) under shortwave ultraviolet light. It occurs...
- red-colored, mostly due to iron and manganese dopants, and ****ociated with willemite and franklinite. Zincite crystals can be grown artificially, and synthetic...
- minerals, many of which are fluorescent. More commonly, it occurs with willemite, calcite, and zincite. In these rocks, it forms as disseminated small...
- constitute zinc ore. It commonly occurs in ****ociation with hemimorphite, willemite, hydrozincite, cerussite, malachite, azurite, aurichalcite and anglesite...
- mine incrustations. It occurs ****ociated with smithsonite, hemimorphite, willemite, cerussite, aurichalcite, calcite and limonite. It was first described...
- Weissite Weloganite Whewellite Whiteite (group of minerals) Whitlockite Willemite Wiluite Witherite Wodginite Wolframite Wollastonite Woodhouseite Wöhlerite...
- location. The mineral ****ociation (****emblage) from Franklin includes willemite, zincite and franklinite. During the mid-to-late 19th century the furnace...
- ultraviolet light. It is found in ****ociation with calcite, franklinite, willemite, hardystonite and clinohedrite. It has also been found as prismatic crystals...
- Vivianite Vlasovite Wardite Wavellite Weloganite Whewellite Wilkeite Willemite Witherite Wollastonite Wulfenite Wurtzite Xonotlite Yugawaralite Zektzerite...
- metamorphosed manganese-rich sediments. It occurs in ****ociation with: zincite, willemite, franklinite, rhodonite, jacobsite, diopside, gageite, bustamite, manganocalcite...