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Etymology
From Webster + -ite, after geologist Thomas Webster (1772–1844).
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Noun
websterite (countable and uncountable, plural websterites)
- A hydrous aluminium sulfate mineral with formula Al2SO4(OH)4·7(H2O).
1873, Charles Horner, “On the Spectra of Some Cobalt Compounds in Blowpipe Chemistry”, in Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science, page 242:Fig. 6 is the interesting spectrum of the bright blue compound of alumina. These three bands, although generally faint, are narrow and well defined, the blue and green spaces being invariably clear. Websterite and cryolite show this spectrum to great advantage.
1896 February, “Eruptive Rocks from Montana”, in The American Naturalist, volume XXX, number III, page 128:Among some specimens of eruptive rocks obtained from Gallatin, Jefferson and Madison Counties, Montana, Merrill finds basalts, andesites, lamprophyres, syenites, porphyrites, wehrlites, harzburgites and websterites, some of which possess peculiar characteristics.
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