albertiten.
/ˈalbətʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈælbərˌtaɪt/ Mineralogy.
A black pyrobitumen found originally in New Brunswick, Canada.
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albertite1853
melan-asphalt1853
wurtzilite1889
pyrobitumen1903
1853 Lit. Gaz. 19 Mar. 283/2 Mr. Dawson gives a detailed description of the mine, and..he supposes that the ‘Albertite’ occupies a fissure running along an anticlinal bend of the strata.
1881 Echo 23 July 1/6 The coal..resembles the Albertite found in New Brunswick.
1938 Sewage Wks. Jrnl. 10 898 Black pigments are graphite, lamp black and a long list of bituminous products ranging from albertite to ground coal.
1965 E. T. Degens Geochem. Sediments v. 263 One may distinguish between the asphaltic, e.g. wurtzilite, elaterite, albertite, and impsonite, and the nonasphaltic pyrobitumens.
1999 T. Gold Deep Hot Biosphere (2001) v. 97 In New Brunswick..a coal called Albertite fills an almost vertical crack that goes through many horizontally bedded sedimentary layers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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