edeniten.
/ˈiːdənʌɪt/ Mineralogy.
A light-coloured sodian variety of hornblende containing relatively little iron.
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1842 L. C. Beck Mineral. N.Y. ii. vi. 302 About a mile north of Edenville is another locality, at which the crystals [of hornblende] are of a hair-brown or grey color, associated with..mica and chondrodite, in white limestone. They vary in size from very small to an inch in diameter. From the peculiarity of its colour, it has sometimes been called Edenite.
1868 J. D. Dana Syst. Mineral. (ed. 5) 235 Aluminous Magnesia-Lime Amphibole. (a) Edenite... (b) Smaragdite.
1886 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 50 519 Edenite (Hornblende). Colour green..or greyish-yellow.
1932 W. E. Ford Dana's Textbk. Mineral. (ed. 4) 575 The varieties of hornblende here included range from the light-colored edenite, containing but little iron..to the dark-colored or black hornblende.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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