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graftonite Min.|ˈgrɑːftənaɪt, -æ-|
[f. Grafton, name of a village in New Hampshire, U.S.A.: see -ite1.]
A pink to brown crystalline phosphate of calcium and bivalent iron and manganese, (Fe,Mn,Ca)3(PO4)2, usually found associated with triphylite.
1900S. L. Penfield in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. CLIX. 20 (title) On graftonite, a new mineral from Grafton, New Hampshire, and its intergrowth with triphylite. 1968Amer. Mineralogist LIII. 742 Graftonite is a phosphate mineral of wide occurrence. |