apatite

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noun

Plural noun:

apatites

1.
(countable, uncountable)(mineralogy) A calcium fluoride phosphate of variable composition, sometimes used in the manufacture of fertilizer, as a gemstone, and (in powdered form) as a pigment, and also produced biologically in bones and teeth.

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From international scientific vocabulary, from German Apatit (apatite). Apatit was coined by the German geologist Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749–1817), as follows: Ancient Greek ᾰ̓πᾰ́τη (deceit, fraud) (as it is often mistaken for other minerals) + German -it; the German word was first used in a 1786 book.