hiddenite

hiddenite
/hid"n uyt'/, n. Mineral.
a rare, transparent variety of spodumene, colored yellow-green to emerald-green by chromium: used as a gem.
[after William E. Hidden (1853-1918), U.S. mineralogist, who discovered it in 1879; see -ITE1]

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      green, semiprecious variety of the silicate mineral spodumene (q.v.).

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