different between putzite vs petzite

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? + -ite

putzite

(mineralogy) An isometric-hextetrahedral iron black mineral containing copper, germanium, silver, and sulfur.

Petz +? -ite, after chemist W. Petz.

petzite (countable and uncountable, plural petzites)

(mineralogy) A soft, steel-gray isometric telluride mineral generally deposited by hydrothermal activity and usually associated with rare tellurium and gold minerals.

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