A mineral containing aluminum, particularly applied to various aluminum-rich rocks or specific crystalline aluminum compounds.
From alumin- + -ite (mineral suffix). Following the naming convention for minerals and rocks identified in the 19th-century mineral science.
Minerals ending in '-ite' (like hematite, magnetite, calcite) tell geologists what they're looking at—'alumite' signals an aluminum-rich mineral worth studying or mining.
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