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Gehlenite

GEHLENITE

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Noun.
[from Gehlen, the chimist.]
A mineral recently discovered, in the description of which authors are not perfectly agreed. According to the description and analysis of Fuchs, it appears to be a variety of idocrase; but according to the observations of Prof. Clarke, it is probably a new species.

Definition 2024


gehlenite

gehlenite

English

Noun

gehlenite (usually uncountable, plural gehlenites)

  1. (mineralogy) A particular kind of sorosilicate.