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ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:
- hematite (n.)
- 1540s, haematites, from M.Fr. hematite (16c.), from L. haematites, from Gk. haimatites lithos "bloodlike stone," from haima (gen. haimatos) "blood" (see -emia). Earlier as emachite (late 14c.).
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