Alexander von Volborth
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Alexander von Volborth/Aleksandr Fedorovich von Volborth (1800-1876), was a Russian palaeontologist. Volborthite
, a mineral containing copper and vanadium and first found in 1838 at the Sofronovskii Copper Mine near Perm
in the Urals, was named after him.
Volborthite
Volborthite is a mineral containing copper and vanadium, with the formula Cu3V2O72·2H2O. Found originally in 1838 in the Urals, it was named for Alexander von Volborth , a Russian paleontologist....
, a mineral containing copper and vanadium and first found in 1838 at the Sofronovskii Copper Mine near Perm
Perm
Perm is a city and the administrative center of Perm Krai, Russia, located on the banks of the Kama River, in the European part of Russia near the Ural Mountains. From 1940 to 1957 it was named Molotov ....
in the Urals, was named after him.