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- noun mineralogy A
cobalt sulfide mineral that forms a series withpolydymite .
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Named in honour of Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778), with -ite.
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Mineral named after Carl von Linné (Carolus Linnaeus) (1707–1778), Swedish taxonomist, whose treatise Systema Naturae (1735) and subsequent works laid the foundation of biological nomenclature.
June 11, 2010