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Pinite vs Painite - What's the difference?

pinite | painite |

In mineralogy terms the difference between pinite and painite

is that pinite is a compact granular cryptocrystalline mineral of a dull grayish or greenish white color. It is a hydrous alkaline silicate, and is derived from the alteration of other minerals, such as iolite while painite is a very rare orange-red borate mineral consisting mostly of calcium, zirconium, boron, aluminium, and oxygen.

As nouns the difference between pinite and painite

is that pinite is any fossil wood which exhibits traces of having belonged to the pine family while painite is a very rare orange-red borate mineral consisting mostly of calcium, zirconium, boron, aluminium, and oxygen.

pinite

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Any fossil wood which exhibits traces of having belonged to the pine family.
  • (chemistry) A sweet white crystalline substance extracted from the gum of a species of pine (, sugar pine), isomeric with quercite.

    • Etymology 2

    , after a mine in Saxony.

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (mineralogy) A compact granular cryptocrystalline mineral of a dull grayish or greenish white color. It is a hydrous alkaline silicate, and is derived from the alteration of other minerals, such as iolite.
    • (Webster 1913) ----

    painite

    English

    Noun

    (-) (wikipedia painite)
  • (mineralogy) A very rare orange-red borate mineral consisting mostly of calcium, zirconium, boron, aluminium, and oxygen.