imeriniten.
/ɪməˈriːnʌɪt/ Mineralogy.
A colourless or pale blue hydrated silicate of sodium, magnesium, and iron, Na2(Mg,Fe ii,Fe iii)6Si8O22(O,OH)2, related to richterite.
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1913 Mineral. Mag. 16 363 Imerinite... A soda-amphibole containing only a small amount of sesquioxides and so allied to soda-richterite.
1963 W. A. Deer et al. Rock-forming Minerals II. 353 The names imerinite (Lacroix, 1921) and szechenyite (Krenner, 1900), used for members of the richterite series from Madagascar and Burma respectively, serve no useful purpose and should be abandoned.
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