heulandite
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English
Etymology
From Heuland + -ite after British mineral collector John Henry Heuland (1778-1856).[1]
Noun
heulandite (countable and uncountable, plural heulandites)
- (mineralogy) A common mineral of the zeolite group with monoclinic crystals, the most usual form being heulandite-Ca (Ca,Na)2-3Al3(Al,Si)2Si13O36·12H2O.
Further reading
- David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Heulandite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
- “heulandite”, in Mindat.org, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.
- ^ Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine W. Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig: Dana's new mineralogy, John Wiley & Sons, 1997.