Cassiterite: Difference between revisions

The name derives from the [[Greek language|Greek]] ''kassiteros'' for "tin": this comes from the [[Phoenician languages|Phoenician]] word ''Cassiterid'' referring to the islands of [[Ireland]] and [[Great Britain]],<ref name="chemeur">{{cite web |title=Chemeurope |url=https://www.chemeurope.com/en/encyclopedia/Cassiterite.html |website=Chemeurope |publisher=Chemeurope |access-date=28 September 2022 |ref=9cn}}</ref> the ancient sources of tin; or, as [[Roman Ghirshman]] (1954) suggests, from the region of the [[Kassites]], an ancient people in west and central [[Iran]].