| 释义 |
mossite Min.|ˈmɒsaɪt|
[ad. G. mossit (W. C. Brögger 1897, in Skrifter udgivne af Videnskabsselskabet i Christiania: Mat.-nat. Kl. vii. 4), f. Moss, the name of the city in Norway near which it was found: see -ite1.]
a. A mineral, (Fe,Mn)(Ta,Nb)2O6, similar to tapiolite but containing a high proportion of niobium.
b. The end member of the series obtained by substituting niobium for tantalum in tapiolite.
1898Jrnl. Chem. Soc. LXXIV. ii. 387 The new mineral, mossite, occurs with yttrotantalite and columbite in a pegmatite vein at Berg in the parish of Råde, near Moss, in Norway. 1917Mineral. Mag. XVIII. 120 The relationship which strüverite and ilmenorutile bear to rutile, on the one hand, and to tapiolite and mossite, on the other hand, may be graphically illustrated. 1955Amer. Mineralogist XL. 445 These features lead one to question the existence of mossite and of a complete tetragonal mossite–tapiolite series. 1968I. Kostov Mineralogy ii. iv. 247 Tapiolite and mossite have a rutile type of structure in which two [(Ta, Nb)O6] octahedra alternate with one [FeO6] octahedron along the tetragonal axis. |