cotunniten.
/kəʊˈtʌnʌɪt/ Mineralogy.
Native lead chloride found in white acicular crystals in the crater of Vesuvius.
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1827 Amer. Jrnl. Sc. 12 185 Muriate of lead, to which the authors give the name of Cotunnia.]
1834 R. Allan Man. Mineral. 304 Cotunnite..fuses very easily before the blowpipe.
1869 J. Phillips Vesuvius x. 280 Chloride of Lead—‘Cotunnite’—found in the fissures of the Vesuvian lava.
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