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serpierite Min.|ˈsɜːpɪəraɪt|
[a. F. serpierite (A. des Cloizeaux 1881, in Bull. de la Soc. min. de France IV. 92), f. the name of J. B. Serpieri, 19th-cent. Italian engineer: see -ite1.]
A hydrated basic sulphate of copper, zinc, and calcium found as crusts or aggregates of small pale blue orthorhombic crystals.
1892E. S. Dana Dana's Syst. Min. (ed. 6) 963 Serpierite... Crystals minute... Occurs on smithsonite at the zinc mines of Laurium, Greece. 1927Mineral. Mag. XXI. 387 Smithsonite (ZnCO3) is also tolerably abundant..and it is in cavities of this smithsonite that the serpierite occurs. 1964Amer. Mineralogist XLIX. 1145 Devillite and serpierite were identified on the basis of morphology, optics, and microchemical tests. |