jarliten.
/ˈjɑːlʌɪt/ Mineralogy.
A colourless to greyish-white fluoride of sodium, strontium, and aluminium, NaSr3Al3F16, found as monoclinic crystals at Ivigtut, Greenland.
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1933 R. Bøgvad in Meddelelser om Grønland XCII. viii. 3 The mineral has been named jarlite, after Mr. C. F. Jarl, by whose courtesy I have been enabled to carry out the present investigations.
1949 Amer. Mineralogist 34 386 Jarlite..occurs as colorless, flat crystals about 1mm. in size, often fused in the shape of a fan and growing with thomsenolite in vugs in the cryolite.
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