Formula : Mn2+WO4
System: monoclinic Hardness:4-4½ Rarity:not common
Strunz id:IV/D.16-10 -
OXIDES and HYDROXIDES
Name origin: Named in 1865 by Eugene N. Riotte (native of Elberfeld, Germany) for Friedrich Adolph Hübner [May 17, 1830?, Koenigsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia) -?], German mining engineer and metallurgist from Freiberg, Saxony. (Original notice did not have an umlaut as it was in an English language newspaper.)
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