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Abraham Gottlob Werner

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Abraham Gottlob Werner (25 September 174930 June 1817) was a German geologist who set out an early theory about the stratification of the Earth's crust and propounded a history of the Earth that came to be known as Neptunism. [1]

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Abiogenic petroleum origin

Abiogenic petroleum origin is a term used to describe a number of different hypotheses which propose that petroleum and natural gas are formed by inorganic means rather than by the decomposition of organisms.

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Adolf Remelé

Adolf Karl Remelé (17 July 1839, Uerdingen – 16 November 1915, Eberswalde) was a German geologist and mineralogist.

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Alexander von Humboldt

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 17696 May 1859) was a Prussian polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of Romantic philosophy and science.

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Alexander von Schrenk

Alexander Gustav von Schrenk (4 February 1816 – 25 June 1876) was a Baltic German naturalist born near Tula in what was then the Russian Empire.

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Allotropes of carbon

Carbon is capable of forming many allotropes due to its valency.

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Andrés Manuel del Río

Andrés Manuel del Río Fernández (10 November 1764 – 23 March 1849) was a Spanish–Mexican scientist and naturalist who discovered compounds of vanadium in 1801.

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Anhydrite

Anhydrite is a mineral—anhydrous calcium sulfate, CaSO4.

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Apatite

Apatite is a group of phosphate minerals, usually referring to hydroxylapatite, fluorapatite and chlorapatite, with high concentrations of OH−, F− and Cl− ions, respectively, in the crystal.

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Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology

Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology is a history of science by Isaac Asimov, written as the biographies of over 1500 scientists.

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Augite

Augite is a common rock-forming pyroxene mineral with formula (Ca,Na)(Mg,Fe,Al,Ti)(Si,Al)2O6.

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August Breithaupt

Johann Friedrich August Breithaupt (May 16, 1791 – September 22, 1873) was a German mineralogist and professor at Freiberg Mining Academy in Freiberg, Saxony.

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Christian Friedrich Ludwig

Christian Friedrich Ludwig (19 May 1757, Leipzig – 8 July 1823, Leipzig) was a German physician and naturalist.

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Christian Leopold von Buch

Christian Leopold von Buch (April 26, 1774 – March 4, 1853) was a German geologist and paleontologist born in Stolpe an der Oder (now a part of Angermünde, Brandenburg) and is remembered as one of the most important contributors to geology in the first half of the nineteenth century.

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Claudine Picardet

Claudine Picardet (born Poullet, later Guyton de Morveau) (7 August 1735 – 4 October 1820) was a chemist, mineralogist, meteorologist and scientific translator.

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Conical hill

A conical hill (also cone or conical mountain) is a landform with a distinctly conical shape.

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Deep time

Deep time is the concept of geologic time.

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Dietrich Ludwig Gustav Karsten

Dietrich Ludwig Gustav Karsten (5 April 1768 – 20 May 1810) was a German mineralogist.

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Flood geology

Flood geology (also creation geology or diluvial geology) is the attempt to interpret and reconcile geological features of the Earth in accordance with a literal belief in the global flood described in Genesis 6–8.

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Franz Ambrosius Reuss

Franz Ambrosius Reuss (3 October 1761, Prague – 9 September 1830, Bilin) was a Czech geologist, mineralogist and balneologist.

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Franz Xaver von Baader

Franz von Baader (27 March 1765 – 23 May 1841), born Benedikt Franz Xaver Baader, was a German Catholic philosopher, theologian, and mining engineer.

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Freiberg

Freiberg is a university and mining town in the Free State of Saxony, Germany.

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Friedrich August von Quenstedt

Friedrich August von Quenstedt (July 10, 1809 – December 21, 1889), was a German geologist and palaeontologist.

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Friedrich Seifert

Friedrich Alfred Seifert (born 8 May 1941) is a German mineralogist and geophysicist.

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Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden

Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden (23 March 1752 – 3 July 1815) was a German pioneer in mining and metallurgy.

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Geologic time scale

The geologic time scale (GTS) is a system of chronological dating that relates geological strata (stratigraphy) to time.

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Geologist

A geologist is a scientist who studies the solid and liquid matter that constitutes the Earth as well as the processes that shape it.

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Geology

Geology (from the Ancient Greek γῆ, gē, i.e. "earth" and -λoγία, -logia, i.e. "study of, discourse") is an earth science concerned with the solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time.

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Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann

Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann (30 May 1797 – 26 November 1873), also known as Karl Friedrich Naumann, was a German mineralogist and geologist.

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George Harvey (FRS)

George Harvey (died 29 October 1834) was an English mathematician, known for his scientific and engineering writings, on meteorology, ship building, and colour blindness.

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George Julius Poulett Scrope

George Julius Poulett Scrope FRS (10 March 1797 – 19 January 1876) was an English geologist and political economist as well as a magistrate for Stroud in Gloucestershire.

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Georges Cuvier

Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier (23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology".

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Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert

Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert (26 April 1780, in Hohenstein-Ernstthal – 30 June 1860, in Laufzorn, a village in Oberhaching) was a German physician and naturalist.

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Graphite

Graphite, archaically referred to as plumbago, is a crystalline allotrope of carbon, a semimetal, a native element mineral, and a form of coal.

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Gustav von Leonhard

Gustav von Leonhard (12 November 1816 in Munich – 27 December 1878 in Heidelberg) was a German mineralogist and geologist.

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Hartvig Caspar Christie (physicist)

Hartvig Caspar Christie (1 December 1826 – 3 March 1873) was a Norwegian mineralogist and physicist.

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Heinrich Girard

Heinrich Girard (June 2, 1814 – April 11, 1878) was a German mineralogist and geologist born in Berlin.

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Henri Guillaume Galeotti

Henri Guillaume Galeotti (10 September 1814 – 1858) was a French-Belgian botanist and geologist of Italian parentage born in Paris.

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Henrik Steffens

Henrik Steffens (2 May 1773 – 13 February 1845), was a Norwegian-born Danish philosopher, scientist, and poet.

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History of geology

The history of geology is concerned with the development of the natural science of geology.

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History of science

The history of science is the study of the development of science and scientific knowledge, including both the natural and social sciences.

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Human Accomplishment

Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950 is a 2003 book by Charles Murray, most widely known as the co-author of The Bell Curve (1994).

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Jacob Aall

Jacob Aall (27 July 1773 – 4 August 1844) was a Norwegian politician, historian, landowner and government economist.

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James Hutton

James Hutton (3 June 1726 – 26 March 1797) was a Scottish geologist, physician, chemical manufacturer, naturalist, and experimental agriculturalist.

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Johann Carl Gehler

Johann Carl Gehler (17 May 1732 – 6 May 1796) was a German physician, mineralogist and anatomist.

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Johann Gottlob von Kurr

Johann Gottlob von Kurr (15 January 1798, Sulzbach an der Murr – 9 May 1870, Stuttgart) was a German pharmacist and naturalist, making contributions in the fields of botany and mineralogy.

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Johann Karl Wilhelm Voigt

Johann Karl Wilhelm Voigt (20 February 1752 in Allstedt – 2 January 1821 in Ilmenau) was a German mineralogist and mining engineer.

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John Hailstone

John Hailstone (13 December 1759 – 9 June 1847) was an English geologist He was placed at an early age under the care of a maternal uncle at York, and was sent to Beverley school in the East Riding.

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José Bonifácio de Andrada

José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva (13 June 17636 April 1838) was a Brazilian statesman, naturalist, professor and poet, born in Santos, São Paulo, then part of the Portuguese Empire.

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Joseph Russegger

Joseph Ritter von Russegger (18 November 1802 – 20 June 1863) was an Austrian geologist who was a native of Salzburg.

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Joseph Waltl

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Jurassic

The Jurassic (from Jura Mountains) was a geologic period and system that spanned 56 million years from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period Mya.

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Karl Cäsar von Leonhard

Karl Cäsar von Leonhard (12 September 1779 in Rumpenheim – 23 January 1862 in Heidelberg) was a German mineralogist and geologist.

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Karl Emil von Schafhäutl

Karl Franz Emil von Schafhäutl (16 February 1803 in Ingolstadt – 25 February 1890 in Munich) was a German naturalist and musicologist.

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Karl Georg von Raumer

Karl Georg von Raumer (* 9 April 1783 in Wörlitz; † 2 June 1865 in Erlangen) was a German geologist and educator.

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Karl Ludwig Giesecke

Carl Ludwig Giesecke FRSE (6 April 1761 in Augsburg – 5 March 1833 in Dublin) was a German actor, librettist, polar explorer and mineralogist.

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Karl von Fritsch

Karl Wilhelm Georg von Fritsch (11 November 1838, Weimar – 9 January 1906) was a German geologist and paleontologist.

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Kaspar Maria von Sternberg

Count Kaspar Maria von Sternberg (also: Caspar Maria, Count Sternberg, Kaspar Maria Graf Sternberg, hrabě Kašpar Maria Šternberk), 1761, Prague – 1838, Březina Castle, was a Bohemian theologian, mineralogist, geognost, entomologist and botanist.

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Leucite

Leucite is a rock-forming mineral composed of potassium and aluminium tectosilicate K. Crystals have the form of cubic icositetrahedra but, as first observed by Sir David Brewster in 1821, they are not optically isotropic, and are therefore pseudo-cubic.

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List of geologists

A geologist is a contributor to the science of geology.

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List of mineralogists

The following is a list of notable mineralogists and other people who made notable contributions to mineralogy.

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Luis de Onís

Luis de Onís y Gonzalez-Vara (June 4, 1762 – May 17, 1827) was a career Spanish diplomat who served as Spanish Envoy to the United States from 1809 to 1819, and is remembered for negotiating the cession of Florida to the US in the Adams-Onís Treaty with United States Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, in 1819.

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Matthias Joseph Anker

Matthias Joseph Anker (May 6, 1771 – April 3, 1843) was an Austrian mineralogist and geologist born in Graz.

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Meister Eckhart

Eckhart von Hochheim (–), commonly known as Meister Eckhart or Eckehart, was a German theologian, philosopher and mystic, born near Gotha, in the Landgraviate of Thuringia (now central Germany) in the Holy Roman Empire.

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Mineral collecting

Mineral collecting is the hobby of systematically collecting, identifying and displaying mineral specimens.

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Nathanael Gottfried Leske

Nathanael Gottfried Leske (22 October 1751 in Muskau – 25 November 1786 in Marburg) was a German natural scientist and geologist.

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Neptunism

Neptunism, a superseded scientific theory of geology proposed by Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749-1817) in the late 18th century, proposed rocks formed from the crystallisation of minerals in the early Earth's oceans.

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Novalis

Novalis was the pseudonym and pen name of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (2 May 1772 – 25 March 1801), a poet, author, mystic, and philosopher of Early German Romanticism.

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Olivenite

Olivenite is a copper arsenate mineral, formula Cu2AsO4OH.

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On the Origin of Species

On the Origin of Species (or more completely, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life),The book's full original title was On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.

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Osiecznica, Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Osiecznica (Wehrau) is a village in Bolesławiec County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.

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Patrick Syme

Patrick Syme (1774–1845) was a Scottish flower-painter.

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Peter Merian

Peter Merian (20 December 1795, Basel – 8 February 1883, Basel) was a Swiss geologist and paleontologist.

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Plutonism

Plutonism (or volcanism) is the geologic theory that the igneous rocks forming the Earth originated from intrusive magmatic activity, with a continuing gradual process of weathering and erosion wearing away rocks, which were then deposited on the sea bed, re-formed into layers of sedimentary rock by heat and pressure, and raised again.

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Primary rock

Primary rock is an early term in geology that refers to crystalline rock formed first in geologic time, containing no organic remains, such as granite, gneiss and schist as well as igneous and magmatic formations from all ages.

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Richard Chenevix (chemist)

Richard Chenevix FRS FRSE (ca. 1774 – 5 April 1830) was an Irish chemist, mineralogist and playwright who also wrote on a range of other topics.

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Robert Jameson

Robert Jameson Professor Robert Jameson FRS FRSE (11 July 1774 – 19 April 1854) was a Scottish naturalist and mineralogist.

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Rutile

Rutile is a mineral composed primarily of titanium dioxide (TiO2).

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Scriptural geologist

Scriptural geologists (or Mosaic geologists) were a heterogeneous group of writers in the early nineteenth century, who claimed "the primacy of literalistic biblical exegesis" and a short Young Earth time-scale.

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Sepiolite

Sepiolite, also known as meerschaum (meaning "foam of the sea") is a soft white clay mineral, often used to make tobacco pipes (known as meerschaum pipes).

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Sigmund Zois

Sigmund Zois Freiherr von Edelstein, usually referred as Sigmund Zois (Žiga Zois, archaic Cojs or Cojz) (23 November 1747 – 10 November 1819) was a Carniolan nobleman, natural scientist and patron of the arts.

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Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet

Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet of Applegarth FRS FRSE FLS FSA (23 February 1800 – 21 November 1874) was a Scottish naturalist.

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Thomas Weaver

Thomas Weaver (1773–1855) was an English mining engineer and geologist.

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Timeline of the discovery and classification of minerals

Georgius Agricola is considered the 'father of mineralogy'.

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Uniformitarianism

Uniformitarianism, also known as the Doctrine of Uniformity,, "The assumption of spatial and temporal invariance of natural laws is by no means unique to geology since it amounts to a warrant for inductive inference which, as Bacon showed nearly four hundred years ago, is the basic mode of reasoning in empirical science.

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Vivianite

Vivianite is a hydrated iron phosphate mineral found in a number of geological environments.

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Werner (name)

Werner is a name of Germanic origins.

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Werner Mountains

Werner Mountains is a group of mountains located just west-southwest of New Bedford Inlet and between the Meinardus and Bryan Glaciers, in Palmer Land.

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Wernerian Natural History Society

The Wernerian Natural History Society (12 January 1808 – 16 April 1858), commonly abbreviated as the Wernerian Society, was a learned society interested in the broad field of natural history, and saw papers presented on various topics such as mineralogy, plants, insects, and scholarly expeditions.

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White Watson

White Watson (10 April 1760 – 8 August 1835) was an early English geologist, sculptor, stonemason and carver, marble-worker and mineral dealer.

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Wilhelm August Lampadius

Wilhelm August Lampadius was born in Hehlen (Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel) on 8 August 1772 and died on 13 April 1842 in Freiberg.

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Wilhelm von Gümbel

Baron Karl Wilhelm von Gümbel (February 11, 1823 – June 18, 1898), German geologist, was born at Dannenfels, in the Palatinate of the Rhine, and is known chiefly by his researches on the geology of Bavaria.

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William Withering

William Withering FRS (17 March 1741 – 6 October 1799) was an English botanist, geologist, chemist, physician and the discoverer of digitalis.

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Witherite

Witherite is a barium carbonate mineral, BaCO3, in the aragonite group.

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Young Earth creationism

Young Earth creationism (YEC) is a form of creationism, a religious belief, which holds that the universe, Earth, and all life on Earth were created by direct acts of God less than 10,000 years ago.

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Zoisite

Zoisite, first known as saualpite, after its type locality, is a calcium aluminium hydroxy sorosilicate belonging to the epidote group of minerals.

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1749

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1749 in science

The year 1749 in science and technology involved some significant events.

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1817

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1817 in science

The year 1817 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Gottlob_Werner

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