释义 |
kirwanite Min.|ˈkɜːwənaɪt| [Named after R. Kirwan, an Irish mineralogist (1733–1812): see -ite1.] A fibrous, green, chlorite-like mineral, found in the basalt of the North of Ireland.
1811Pinkerton Petral. I. 561 Kirwanite. 1833Philos. Mag. III. 85 Kirwanite—Found by Mr. P. Doran in the Greenstone and Porphyry of Mourne, and named by Dr. Thomson. |