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ˈwɪð əˌraɪtwitherite
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witheritenoun
A yellow-grey mineral form of barium carbonate, BaCO
Webster Dictionary
Witheritenoun
barium carbonate occurring in white or gray six-sided twin crystals, and also in columnar or granular masses
Etymology: [So called after Dr. W. Withering.]
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Witherite
Witherite is a barium carbonate mineral, BaCO3, in the aragonite group. Witherite crystallizes in the orthorhombic system and virtually always is twinned. The mineral is colorless, milky white, grey, pale yellow, green, to pale brown. The specific gravity is 4.3, which is high for a translucent mineral. It fluoresces light blue under both long and short-wave UV light, and is phosphorescent under short-wave UV light. Witherite forms in low-temperature hydrothermal environments. It is commonly associated with fluorite, celestine, galena, barite, calcite and aragonite. Witherite occurrences include: Cave-in-Rock, Illinois, USA; Settlingstones Mine Northumberland, Alston Moor, Cumbria, Anglezarke, Lancashire and Burnhope, County Durham, England; Thunder Bay area, Ontario, Canada, Germany and Poland. Witherite was named for William Withering an English physician and naturalist who in 1784 published his research on the new mineral. He could show that barite and the new mineral were two different minerals.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
WITHERITE
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Witherite is ranked #47107 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Witherite surname appeared 451 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Witherite.
97.7% or 441 total occurrences were White.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of witherite in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of witherite in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
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