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reddingite Min.|ˈrɛdɪŋaɪt|
[f. the name of Redding township, Fairfield County, Connecticut, where the mineral was first found: see -ite1.]
A hydrated phosphate of ferrous iron and bivalent manganese (the latter predominating), (Mn,Fe)3(PO4)2.3H2O, which forms an isomorphous series with phosphoferrite and occurs as pinkish, yellowish, or colourless, translucent or transparent, orthorhombic crystals.
1878Brush & Dana in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. CXVI. 35 In addition to the above minerals, as original constituents of the same deposit, are amblygonite (hebronite), and a phosphate of manganese isomorphous with scorodite which we shall describe under the name reddingite. 1955[see phosphoferrite s.v. phospho-]. 1964Amer. Mineralogist XLIX. 1122 Landesite, a rare hydrated manganous-ferric phosphate, is an alteration product of reddingite which, in turn, is derived from the hydration and alkali-leaching of lithiophilite-triphylite at the Berry Quarry, Poland, Maine. 1971Mineral. Abstr. XXII. 18/1 Iron-manganese phosphate minerals, new to the Congo are..reddingite-phosphoferrite, bermanite, phosphosiderite, [etc.]. |