bucklanditen.
/ˈbʌkləndʌɪt/ Mineralogy.
A variety of allanite or the related mineral epidote.
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allanite1810
orthite1817
bucklandite1824
tautolite1828
xanthorthite1868
pumpellyite1925
1824 A. Lévy in Ann. Philos. New Ser. 7 134 At the suggestion of Mr. Heuland, I propose to give the name of Bucklandite (in honour of the celebrated Professor of Oxford), to a mineral substance, the crystallographical characters of which I find to differ from any hitherto described.
1854 J. D. Dana Syst. Mineral. (ed. 4) II. 208 Bucklandite is from Achmatowsk, Arendal, and Lake Laach.
1863 J. D. Dana Man. Min. 183 The mineral Bucklandite is an iron-epidote.
1910 Encycl. Brit. IX. 689/1 Several other names (achmatite, bucklandite, escherite,..&c.) have been applied to this species [sc. epidote].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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