A mineral composed of copper, arsenic, sulfur, and oxygen; a rare arsenate mineral found in certain ore deposits.
Named from the element 'gas' (gasium, an obsolete name) combined with the mineralogical suffix '-ite', which denotes a mineral. The term reflects 19th-century mineral classification practices.
Most mineral names either honor someone's name or describe their composition, but gassit belongs to a tiny club of minerals named after chemical elements using old nomenclature—it's like a fossil in the periodic table's history.
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