A rare mineral, likely a crystalline compound with specific geological properties, named after a place or person.
This appears to be a mineralogical term, possibly Scandinavian in origin (note 'kjerne' relates to Scandinavian languages), with the -ite suffix indicating a mineral species.
Minerals are named after so many things—places, people, their properties—and -ite minerals comprise thousands of species; geologists are still discovering new ones in remote mountain ranges and deep caves.
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