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saponite

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Coined by Swedish chemist and mineralogist Lars Fredrik Svanberg in 1840, from Latin sāpō (“soap”) + -ite.

noun saponites

countable, uncountable A trioctahedral smectite mineral.
Similar: piotine, soapstone

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Deutsch	Saponit, Seifenstein

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@misc{saponite_2026,
  title = {saponite},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/saponite},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}