apatite

Etymology
From, from. was by the German geologist  (1749–1817), as follows:  (as it is often mistaken for other minerals) + ; the German word was first used in a 1786 book. Regarding minerals that were named for being deceptive and thus confused with others, compare also.

Noun

 * 1)  A calcium fluoride phosphate of variable composition, sometimes used in the manufacture of fertilizer, as a gemstone, and (in powdered form) as a pigment, and also produced biologically in bones and teeth.

Usage notes
Not to be confused with.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: apatiet
 * Arabic: أباتيت
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: apatit
 * Basque: apatito
 * Belarusian: апатит
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: apatita
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: apatit
 * Danish: apatit
 * Dutch: apatiet
 * Esperanto: apatito
 * Estonian:
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 * French:
 * Galician: apatita
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: אפטיט
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: apatit
 * Irish: apaitít
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 燐灰石
 * Kannada: ಅಪಟೈಟ್
 * Kazakh: апатит
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latvian: apatīts
 * Lithuanian: apatitas
 * Malayalam: അപറ്റൈറ്റ്
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: apatitt
 * Nynorsk: apatitt
 * Occitan: apatita
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: apatita
 * Romanian:
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 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: апа̀тӣт
 * Latin:
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish: apatita
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: апатит
 * Thai: อะพาไทต์
 * Turkish:
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 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: apatit