A rare mineral composed of lithium aluminum silicate hydroxide, named after mineralogist William Augustus Cooke.
Named in 1873 after William Augustus Cooke, an English mineralogist. The suffix '-ite' is standard in mineralogy for naming minerals, derived from Greek '-ites' meaning 'of or belonging to.'
Minerals are often named after the scientists who discover them—cookeite reminds us that the scientific world honors researchers by literally putting their names in stone! There are hundreds of minerals named after people, making the periodic table a kind of monument to scientific history.
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