Definition
A mineral or a substance derived from arabinose; sometimes used as a technical term in mineralogy or biochemistry.
Etymology
From arabinose plus the suffix -ite (used in mineralogy to name minerals, and in chemistry for certain compounds). An obscure technical term with roots in 19th-century chemistry.
Kelly Says
The -ite ending in mineral names like 'feldspar' comes from Greek, and when chemists borrowed it for organic compounds, it created a whole family of scientific terms!
Translations
CACatalà
arabite
ara-bi-te
CSČeština
arabita
ara-bi-ta
DADansk
arabite
ara-bi-te
DEDeutsch
Arabite
ara-bi-te
ELΕλληνικά
αραβικός
ara-vi-kos
ESEspañol
arabita
ara-bi-ta
FISuomi
arabite
ara-bi-te
FRFrançais
arabite
ara-bi-t
HUMagyar
arabita
ara-bi-ta
IDBahasa Indonesia
arabite
ara-bi-te
ITItaliano
arabita
ara-bi-ta
MSBahasa Melayu
arabite
ara-bi-te
NLNederlands
arabite
ara-bi-te
NONorsk
arabite
ara-bi-te
PLPolski
arabita
ara-bi-ta
PTPortuguês
arabita
ara-bi-ta
RORomână
arabita
ara-bi-ta
SVSvenska
arabite
ara-bi-te
SWKiswahili
arabite
ara-bi-te
UKУкраїнська
арабіт
ara-bit
VITiếng Việt
người Ả Rập
nguoi a rap