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    René Just Haüy (French pronunciation: [aɥi]) FRS MWS FRSE (28 February 1743 – 1 June 1822) was a French priest and mineralogist, commonly styled the Abbé...
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    live with his brother, René Just Haüy, who is considered a founder of modern mineralogy. He is buried, with his brother René, in Père Lachaise Cemetery...
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  • Haüy can refer to several people: René Just Haüy (1743–1822), French mineralogist, brother of Valentin Haüy Valentin Haüy (1745–1822), French founder...
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    Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Amsterdam Haüy, R.J. (1801) Traité de Minéralogie. 5 Vols. Paris "René Just Haüy: 550 juweeltjes van houtsnijkunst — Teylers...
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    ambiguity. The name was used by René Just Haüy to include tremolite, actinolite and hornblende. The group was so named by Haüy in allusion to the protean variety...
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    other names were applied to this species, one of which, "idocrase" by René Just Haüy in 1796, is now in common use. A sky bluish variety known as cyprine...
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    Sverdlovskaya Oblast, Middle Urals, Russia. The name, which was coined by René Just Haüy, is from the Ancient Greek διασπείρω meaning "to scatter", in allusion...
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    Cleavage is perfect, parallel to the clinopinacoid, and this suggested to René Just Haüy the name euclase, from the Greek εὖ, easily, and κλάσις, fracture. The...
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    and skinnier appearance than rutile, which led French mineralogist René Just Haüy to name the mineral anatase in 1801, from the Greek anatasis ("extension")...
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    or to its occurrence as "fields" within granite and other minerals (René-Just Haüy, 1804). The change from Spat to -spar was influenced by the English...
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