Min. Also ouw-, uwarowite; ouw-, ouvarovite. [Named in 1832 by G. H. Hess, after Count S. S. Uvarov, President of St. Petersburg Academy: see -ITE1 2 b.] An emerald-green variety of garnet.
1837. Dana, System Mineralogy, 353. Ouwarowite … occurs in transparent emerald-green dodecahedrons.
1855. Orr’s Circ. Sci., Geol., etc. 526. Uwarowite.—Chrome and Lime Garnet…. Translucent;… infusible. Found in the Ural.
1897. L. Fletcher, Introd. Study Min., 102. Uvarovite is a green chrome-garnet.
