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smithite Min.|ˈsmɪθaɪt|
[f. the name of G. F. Herbert Smith (1872–1953), English mineralogist + -ite1.]
A sulpharsenite of silver, AgAsS2, found as red tabular monoclinic crystals.
1905Nature 13 Apr. 574/2 Further crystallographic and chemical details were given of the three new red minerals from the Binnenthal originally described by R. H. Solly, and named by him Smithite (after G. F. Herbert Smith), Hutchinsonite (after A. Hutchinson), and Trechmannite after C. O. Trechmann). 1905R. H. Solly in Mineral. Mag. XIV. 74 Smithite is associated with hutchinsonite, sartorite, and rathite in the white dolomite of the Lengenbach. 1938Econ. Geol. XXXIII. 155 Proustite occurs..in magnificent eutectic relationships with smithite. 1968I. Kostov Mineral. 173 Pyrostilpnite, aramayoite, and smithite have perfect pinacoidal cleavage... Smithite is very soft, the other minerals have a hardness between 2 and 3. |