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marshite Min.|ˈmɑːʃaɪt| [f. the name of its discoverer, C. W. Marsh, 19th-cent. Australian mineralogist + -ite1.] Native cuprous iodide, CuI, found as colourless to pale yellow isometric crystals that redden when exposed.
1893A. Liversidge in Jrnl. & Proc. R. Soc. New South Wales XXVI. 328 Mr. Marsh forwarded to me a small specimen of the copper iodide, and I have verified the principal characteristics as given in his description; as the mineral appears to be a new one, I suggest that it be named Marshite. 1939Amer. Mineralogist XXIV. 629 Marshite, the natural cuprous iodide, was discovered by C. W. Marsh (1893) in the oxidized zone of the lead, zinc, and silver deposit at Broken Hill...In 1937, some crystals intimately associated with atacamite were found at the south end of the oxidized ore body at Chuquicamata [in Chile]. 1964Mineral. Abstr. XVI. 491/2 The fluorescence of the halides sylvine, halite, marshite, and calomel is described. |