Tinnunculite is a naturally-occurring form of dihydrate of uric acid. It should not be confused with a proposed mineral species with the identical name 'Tinnunculite', that forms when droppings from a European kestrel react with the burning dumps of coal mines and quarries. The name tinnunculite is derived from the kestrel's

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, "''Falco tinnunculus''", which is itself derived from the

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word ''tinnunculus'', meaning "kestrel", from ''tinnulus'', meaning "shrill". Tinnunculite is a naturally occurring form of the same type of origin. The mineral is a dihydrate of uricite to which it is visually very similar. Tinnunculite is chemically similar to other organic minerals:

guanine Guanine () (symbol G or Gua) is one of the four main nucleobases found in the nucleic acids DNA and RNA, the others being adenine, cytosine, and thymine ( uracil in RNA). In DNA, guanine is paired with cytosine. The guanine nucleoside is c ...

, uricite; also

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, kladnoite. A new mineral proposal with the same name but slightly different formula (C₁₀H₁₂N₈O₈) was submitted by Chesnokov & Shcherbakova and ultimately rejected by the

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(IMA) on the basis of being of anthropogenic origin.

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, Khibiny Massif,

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, Murmanskaja Oblast, Northern Region.

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