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▪ I. weissite1 Min.|ˈvaɪsaɪt|
[Named (G. weissit) after C. S. Weiss, German crystallographer: see -ite.]
An altered form of iolite.
1836T. Thomson Outl. Min. 282 Weissite occurs thinly scattered in a chlorite slate in kidney shaped pieces about the size of a hazel nut. 1849J. Nicol Min. 263 Weissite, externally like fahlunite, but said to be monoclinohedric. 1868Dana Min. (ed. 5) 301 Weissite, iberite, huronite, are supposed to be altered iolite.
▪ II. weissite2 Min.|ˈvaɪsaɪt|
[See quot. 1927 and -ite1.]
A copper telluride, Cu5Te3, occurring (often in association with rickardite) as bluish black or bluish grey pseudocubic crystals with a metallic lustre that darken on exposure to air.
1927W. P. Crawford in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. CCXIII. 346 The mineral is named Weissite after the late Loui Weiss, owner of the Good Hope mine [at Vulcan, Colorado]. 1980Mineral. Abstr. XXXI. 354/1 Rickardite and weissite occur with pyrite, tetrahedrite, chalcopyrite, and altaite in this orebody in andesites and dacite porphyrites. |