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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A lime-iron variety of pyroxene, occurring in crystals and in lamellar masses of a black or blackish-green color at Tunaberg in Sweden, and elsewhere.

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  • noun mineralogy The iron-rich endmember of the pyroxene group having a monoclinic crystal system.

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Hedenberg +‎ -ite, after M. A. Ludwig Hedenberg.

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