Min. [f. the name Prof. C. A. Wurtz, a French chemist (1817–84), + -ITE1 2 b.] ‘Zinc sulphide, crystallizing in the hexagonal system’ (Chester).
1868. Dana, Min. (ed. 5), 60. Wurtzite and sphalerite are the same compound under distinct crystalline forms.
1897. L. Fletcher, Introd. Study Min., 81. Wurtzite is interesting as crystallising in the Rhombohedral system.
