somervilliten.
/ˈsʌməvɪlʌɪt/ Mineralogy.
A variety of melilite from Vesuvius.
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melilite1814
somervillite1824
humboldtilite1826
zurlite1826
1824 H. J. A. Brooke in Q. Jrnl. Sci. & Arts Jan. 276 The next mineral I shall have to describe came to me with some other Vesuvian substances, from Dr. Somerville, from which circumstances I have named it Somervillite.
1837 J. D. Dana Syst. Mineral. 291 Somervillite accompanies black mica and other minerals, in the ancient scoria of Vesuvius.
1869 J. Phillips Vesuvius x. 290 Humboldtilite—‘Mellilite’, ‘Somervillite’, ‘Zurlite’, &c.—occurs in gray micaceous lava of Somma, and ejected blocks.
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