collophaniten.
/kəˈlɒfənʌɪt/ Mineralogy.
= collophane n.
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1892 E. S. Dana J. D. Dana's Syst. Mineral. (ed. 6) 808 Collophanite occurs on the island of Sombrero.
1917 A. F. Rogers in Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 25 531 Collophane is a calcium carbonophosphate approaching the formula given above. [Note] Dana changed kollophan to collophanite, but since the name has not come into general use it is preferable to use the English equivalent of the original.
1955 J. C. Brown & A. K. Dey India's Mineral Wealth (ed. 3) xii. 479 Collophanite, the hydrated calcium phosphate, Ca3(PO4)2.H2O..may be amorphous, massive, concretionary or banded, white, grey, or brown and earthy, and..it completely lacks any physical properties that are really diagnostic.
1963 Mineral. Abstr. 16 211/2 The centre [of the concretions] is composed of coprolites consisting of collophanite with inclusions of fish bones.
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