A mineral form of zinc carbonate, ZnCO{3}, mined as an ore of zinc or as an ornamental stone
smithsonite
الواصلة
smith·son·ite
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() Named after James Smithson (1754-1829) in 1832.Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine W. Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig: Dana's new mineralogy, John Wiley & Sons, 1997