chalybite

chalybite
/kal"euh buyt'/, n. Mineral.
siderite (def. 1).
[1855-60; < Gk chalyb- (s. of chályps) iron, also iron-worker, member of the Chalybes, a tribe of Asia Minor noted for their blacksmiths + -ITE1]

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