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rosenhahnite Min.|rəʊzənˈhɑːnaɪt|
[f. the name of Leo Rosenhahn, U.S. amateur mineralogist, who first found it in 1962 + -ite1.]
A hydrous calcium silicate, (CaSiO3)3.H2O, occurring as buff to white, tabular or lath-like, triclinic crystals.
1967A. Pabst et al. in Amer. Mineralogist LII. 336 (heading) Rosenhahnite, a new hydrous silicate from Mendocino County, California. 1973Nature 5 Jan. 42/1 Thermal dehydration data showed that the molecule of water is given off very slowly at temperatures between 400 and 500°C and a single crystal of rosenhahnite transforms into an almost perfect single crystal of wollastonite, CaSiO3. |