winchite
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- Hackmanite, winchite 1.JPG
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- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Wnc
- chemical formula
- ☐(NaCa)(Mg₄Al)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 9.DE.20
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 9.DE.20
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Winchite is a mineral in the amphibole group.
== Name == The mineral is named after Howard James Winch, who was the one discovered it in Madhya Pradesh, India. Sir Lewis Fermor was the one who named the mineral.
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