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cotterite Min.|ˈkɒtəraɪt| [See quot. 1877 and -ite1.] A pearly white laminated variety of quartz.
1877Mineral. Mag. I. p. xx, Professor Harkness exhibited a new variety of crystallized quartz, having pearly lustre, which had been found by Miss Cotter, near Cork, and which he proposed to call Cotterite, after the discoverer. 1962in Dana's Syst. Min. (ed. 7) III. 9. |