# roeblingite

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, lead, oxygen, silicon, and sulfur.

## Etymology
Named in 1897 by Samuel Lewis Penfield and Harry Ward Foote in honour of Colonel Washington A. Roebling (1837-1926), engineer, founder of the Mineralogical Society of America, builder of the Brooklyn Bridge and avid mineral collector.
Roebling + -ite

## Source
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