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单词 acadialite
释义

acadialiten.

Brit. /əˈkeɪdɪəlʌɪt/, U.S. /əˈkeɪdiəˌlaɪt/
Forms:

α. 1800s acadiolite.

β. 1800s– acadialite.

Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Acadia , -lite comb. form1.
Etymology: < the name of Acadia (see Acadian n. and adj.), where the mineral was first found + -lite comb. form1. Named acadiolite by F. Alger and C. T. Jackson (see quot. 1840; compare -o- connective); Alger later adopted the spelling acadialite (see quot. 1844), although he was not the first to use it.
Mineralogy.
A reddish mineral long recognized as a particular form of chabazite.
ΚΠ
1840 T. Thomson in Philos. Mag. 17 412 I received from Messrs. Jackson and Alger of New York (well known as the authors of an interesting and valuable paper on the geology of Nova Scotia), a specimen of a mineral which they have distinguished by the name of Acadiolite or yellow chabazite.
1842 Proc. Glasgow Philos. Soc. 1841–2 66 The proportion of alumina in chabasite is greater than in acadialite. If this difference be constant, acadialite must be considered a new species.
1844 F. Alger Phillips's Elem. Treat. Mineral. (ed. 5) 239 In the specimens of Acadialite from different localities in Nova Scotia, the potash and soda replace variable proportions of the lime.
1863 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 85 215 Swan's Creek... Calcite, chabazite!! (white, wine-yellow, and red (acadiolite) in large and very perfect crystals), gypsum, [etc.].
1880 A. E. Foote Catal. Min. & Tables Species 14/2 Of many things, such as Acadiolite, Agirite, Acmite,..etc., I have large museum specimens that come much higher.
1901 J. G. Goodchild Heddle's Mineral. Scotl. II. 94 Acadialite is associated in the same cavity with the ordinary colourless Chabazite.
1997 A. W. Eckert World Opals viii. 331 The varieties of opal in Nova Scotia include..analcite, acadialite matrix, and girasol.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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