loranditen.
/ˈlɔːrəndʌɪt/ Mineralogy.
A sulphide of thallium and arsenic, TIAsS2, found as scarlet monoclinic crystals.
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1895 Mineral. Mag. 11 32 Professor Krenner, of Budapest,..describes a mineral containing no less than 59·5 per cent. of thallium, to which he has given the name Lorandite.
1946 J. R. Partington Gen. & Inorg. Chem. xvi. 431 The only minerals rich in thallium are crookesite (17 p.c. Tl, with Se, Cu, Ag) and lorandite.
1957 Contrib. Mineral. & Petrol. XVI. 45 A new find of the thallium-arsenic-sulphosalt mineral lorandite in the Triassic dolomite of the famous Lengenbach quarry in Binnatal, Ct. Wallis (Switzerland) is described.
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