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hackmanite

The English word “hackmanite” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

  1. An important variety of sodalite exhibiting tenebrescence.

Etymology

From Hackman + -ite, named according to Finnish geologist Victor Hackman who first discovered the mineral in Kola peninsula.

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