A mineral or crystalline substance, though the precise geological classification remains unclear in modern mineralogy.
From Greek 'artos' (bread) + 'tyros' (cheese) + mineralogical suffix '-ite'. The etymology suggests a mineral with mixed characteristics, though this may be a historical or obsolete term.
Artotyrite is a word that has almost completely vanished from modern science—showing that sometimes descriptive names for minerals are abandoned when chemists develop better classification systems.
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