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edenite Min.|ˈiːdənaɪt|
[ad. G. edenit (E. F. Glocker Grundriss d. Min. (1839) 410), f. Edenville, Orange County, New York: see -ite1.]
A light-coloured sodian variety of hornblende containing relatively little iron.
1842L. C. Beck Mineral. New York ii. vi. 302 About a mile north of Edenville is another locality, at which the crystals [of hornblende] are of a hair-brown or grey color, associated with..mica and chondrodite, in white limestone. They vary in size from very small to an inch in diameter. From the peculiarity of its colour, it has sometimes been called Edenite. 1868J. D. Dana Syst. Min. (ed. 5) 235 Aluminous Magnesia-Lime Amphibole. (a) Edenite... (b) Smaragdite. 1886Jrnl. Chem. Soc. L. 519 Edenite (Hornblende). Colour green..or greyish-yellow. 1932W. E. Ford Dana's Textbk. Mineral. (ed. 4) 575 The varieties of hornblende here included range from the light-colored edenite, containing but little iron..to the dark-colored or black hornblende. |