| 释义 |
neighborite Min.|ˈneɪbəraɪt|
[f. the name of Frank Neighbor (see quot. 1961) + -ite1.]
A fluoride of sodium and magnesium, NaMgF3, which occurs as colourless orthorhombic crystals, isostructural with perovskite.
1961E. C. T. Chao et al. in Amer. Mineralogist XLVI. 379 The mineral is named ‘neighborite’ in grateful acknowledgement of the continued friendly interest and helpfulness of Mr. Frank Neighbor, District Geologist of the Sun Oil Co. at Salt Lake City. Ibid. 380 Neighborite was first found as clusters of pink and brown rounded grains in a dark brown to grayish black dolomitic oil shale of the Green River formation of South Ouray, Utah. 1967Doklady Earth Sci. CLXXIV. 140/1 In the USSR neighborite was detected in alkalic metasomatite developed in the Western Urals from porphyry tuff and argillaceous carbonate sediments of Proterozoic age. 1971Amer. Mineralogist LVI. 1520 Neighborite is synthesised from NaF and MgF2 via a eutectic solidification process in which the product is a two-phase mixture of NaF and NaMgF3. |