单词 | christianite |
释义 | christianiten. Mineralogy. Now historical and rare. 1. A mineral of the feldspar group later identified as anorthite. ΚΠ 1826 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 11 263 The color of Christianite is rarely yellow. 1872 T. Egleston Lect. Mineral. 50 Anorthite... Syn.—Indianite, Christianite, Amphodelite. 1969 T. F. W. Barth Feldspars vi. 242 Christianite—from Monte Somma... Breithaupt (1832) declared it to be ordinary anorthite. 2. A mineral of the zeolite group later identified as phillipsite. ΚΠ 1848 London, Edinb., & Dublin Philos. Mag. 32 156 The Iceland and Marburg minerals form therefore a distinct species, inasmuch as they possess a peculiar form and composition; M. Descloizeaux proposes the name of Christianite for this mineral. 1906 F. Oswald Treat. Geol. Armenia i. ii. 18 A second zeolite (christianite) is also present. 1985 G. Gottardi & E. Galli Nat. Zeolites iii. 134 Des Cloizeaux (1847) proposed the name christianite for minerals which later on were shown to be phillipsite. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1826 |
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