| 释义 |
oldhamite Min.|ˈəʊldəmaɪt|
[f. the name of Thomas Oldham (1816–1878), director of the Indian Geological Survey + -ite1.]
Meteoric calcium sulphide of a pale-brown colour, found in small spherules.
1863Rep. Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 1862 App. 11 In it [sc. an aërolite] Mr. Maskelyne has detected a mineral to which he gives the name of Oldhamite—a yellow transparent body of cubic crystallization. 1870Phil. Trans. 195. 1892 Dana Min. (ed. 6) 65. |