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English
Etymology
Named after Scottish geologist Sir Archibald Geikie (1835–1924) + -lite.
Noun
geikielite (countable and uncountable, plural geikielites)
- (mineralogy) A trigonal-rhombohedral mineral containing magnesium, oxygen, and titanium.
1948, Frank K. McIntosh, McHenry Mosier, Investigation of Wood Chromite Mine Area Lancaster County, PA, page 7:The free energy remains negative throughout the whole temperature range, indicating that the association forstorite + ilmenite is thermodynamically more stable than foyalite + geikielite.
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