A dark-colored mineral, a type of pyroxene containing calcium, iron, and silicate, found in metamorphic rocks.
Named after Ludwig Hedenberg, a Swedish mining official, with the suffix '-ite' (used for minerals). The mineral was formally identified and named in the 19th century.
Hedenbergite is a mineral named after a Swedish bureaucrat—most minerals get their names this way, honoring geologists or mineralogists rather than their discoverers. It's a pyroxene that only forms under intense heat and pressure, so finding it tells geologists the rock's history.
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