schreibersiten.

1846 C. U. Shepard in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 52 383 Schreibersite, (Shepard).—Named in honor of the late Carl von Schreibers, Director of the Imperial Cabinet at Vienna, and a well known author on meteorites.

1849 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 58 440 Something..similar is found in the meteoric iron of Arva. Patera was enabled to collect a sufficient quantity of it to make three analyses... As Berzelius had given no name to this substance, Haidinger, in concurrence with M. Patera, proposed for it the specific name of Schreibersite. At a subsequent session..Haidinger..says he has since learned that the American mineralogist and chemist, Prof. Shepard,..had given..this same name to a mineral, also of meteoric origin, which occurs in small brown striated prisms in the meteoric stone of Bishopsville, S.C., which fell in March, 1843... Haidinger.. would be pleased to continue the name of Schreibersite to the Arva Species, and would propose for Shepard's new species, the name of Shepardite.

1868 J. N. Lockyer Elem. Lessons Astron. §318 Besides these substances, a compound of iron, phosphorus and nickel, called schreibersite, is generally found: this compound is unknown in terrestrial chemistry.

1968 Jrnl. Geophysical Res. 73 6963/2 The most notable feature of schreibersite is its compositional variability.

1975 Sci. Amer. Feb. 35/1 At 1,294 degrees gaseous molecular phosphorus reacted with the surface of the metal grains, thus forming the mineral schreibersite.

1977 A. Hallam Planet Earth 27/3 Other highly significant features which must be explained are the presence within some tektites of minute grains of the meteoritic minerals kamacite, troilite and schreibersite, [etc.].