A naturally occurring or synthetic material with abrasive properties, or a mineral used in abrasive applications.
Formed from 'abrase' or 'abrasion' combined with the mineral suffix '-ite,' following geological and mineralogical naming conventions.
Many industrial materials ending in '-ite' (like graphite, hematite, and corundum) are named this way because mineralogists needed to quickly communicate what these rocks could do—abrazite explicitly tells you it abrades.
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