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niocalite Min.|naɪəʊˈkælaɪt| [f. niobium + calcium + -ite1.] A basic silicate and fluoride of niobium and calcium, Ca4NbSi2O10(OH,F), found as yellow orthorhombic crystals.
1956E. H. Nickel in Amer. Mineralogist XLI. 785 A new mineral species, for which the name ‘niocalite’ is here proposed, has been identified in rock from the Oka district, 20 miles west of Montreal, Quebec. 1958Canad. Mineralogist VI. 264 The niocalite occurs as randomly oriented, coarse, prismatic crystals up to one centimetre in length, and occasionally even longer, embedded in the calcite. 1966Soviet Physics—Doklady XI. 197/2 The Patterson projections show that niocalite does not have a screw axis. |