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hessonite Min.|ˈhɛsənaɪt| Also essonite. [ad. F. essonit (R. J. Haüy Traité Pierres Préc. (1817) 51), f. Gr. ἥσσων less + -ite1: so called because it is less hard and heavy than some minerals, such as hyacinth, which it resembles.] A variety of garnet containing calcium and aluminium. Also called cinnamon-stone, grossularite.
1820R. Jameson Min. I. 162 Cinnamon stone..Essonite. 1884Dana Min. 266 Essonite [1892: more commonly hessonite] included a cinnamon-colored variety from Ceylon. 1895Amer. Jrnl. Sci. L. 128 (heading) Apatite and hessonite in a pegmatite from Canaan, Ct. 1933Mineral. Abstr. V. 281 The other [belt], from Ramona to Jacumba, is in granodiorite and the gem minerals in the pegmatites are mainly hessonite, beryl, and topaz. 1959C. S. Hurlbut Dana's Man. Min. (ed. 17) v. 403 Grossularite (Essonite, Cinnamon Stone). Often contains ferrous iron replacing calcium and ferric iron replacing aluminium. |