different between gyrolite vs tyrolite

English

gyro- +? -lite, from Ancient Greek ????? (gúros, “ring, circle”) and ????? (líthos, “stone”), for its round crystalline nodules.

gyrolite (countable and uncountable, plural gyrolites)

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-pyramidal mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, silicon, and sodium.

Tyrol (“place name in Austria, where it was discovered”) +? -ite

tyrolite (uncountable)

(mineralogy) A hydrated calcium copper arsenate carbonate mineral that forms glassy blue to green orthorhombic radial crystals and botryoidal masses.

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