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somervillite Min.|ˈsʌməvɪlaɪt| [See quot. 1823.] A variety of melilite from Vesuvius.
1823H. J. A. Brooke in Q. Jrnl. Sci. XVI. 276 The next mineral I shall have to describe came to me with some other Vesuvian substances, from Dr. Somerville, from which circumstances I have named it Somervillite. 1837Dana Min. 291 Somervillite accompanies black mica and other minerals, in the ancient scoria of Vesuvius. 1869J. Phillips Vesuv. x. 290 Humboldtilite—‘Mellilite’, ‘Somervillite’, ‘Zurlite’, &c.—occurs in gray micaceous lava of Somma, and ejected blocks. |