See Also: Khirbet Kerak(dictionary)
Kerak(tourism)

brochantite (iou) and Khirbet Kerak (iou)


brochantite (iou)



brochantite noun. E19.
[from A. J. M. Brochant de Villiers (1772-1840), French geologist + -ITE1.]
Mineralogy. A bluish-green monoclinic basic copper sulphate usu. occurring as prismatic or elongated crystals or as crystal aggregates.

Khirbet Kerak (iou)



Khirbet Kerak adjective. M20.
[A Syrian town by Lake Tiberias.]
Archaeology. Designating a red and black, highly burnished type of early Bronze Age pottery first found at Khirbet Kerak in the 1940s.