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moldavite|ˈmɒldəvaɪt|
[ad. G. moldawit, f. Moldau, G. name of the Vltava River in western Czechoslovakia: see -ite1.]
A tektite from the tektite field of Czechoslovakia; formerly, the substance (considered a local variety of obsidian) of which such tektites consist.
1896A. H. Chester Dict. Names Minerals 179 Moldawite, an obs. syn. of obsidian. 1909[see billitonite]. 1915Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. XXVI. 281 The moldavites occur here and there, but never in any manner indicative of their origin. 1935Times 28 Jan. 15/4 ‘Tektites’ from Bohemia and Moravia have for more than 150 years been cut as gem stones under the names ‘obsidian’, ‘water chrysolite’ and ‘moldavite’. 1964New Scientist 16 Jan. 160/2 The moldavites from Bohemia and Moravia, about 14·8 million years old (Miocene). 1972Science 11 Aug. 519/2 In 1970 and 1971, two noteworthy finds of double moldavites were made in the fields of southern Bohemia. |