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hauerite

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

noun

  1. A manganese sulfide mineral, MnS₂, that forms reddish-brown or black octahedral crystals.

Etymology

From Hauer + -ite, after Austrian geologists Joseph and Franz Ritter von Hauer.

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