imhofiten.
/ˈɪmhɒfʌɪt/ Mineralogy.
A soft, white sulphide of thallium and arsenic occurring as tiny monoclinic plates.
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1965 G. Burri et al. in Chimia XIX. 409 [English summary of an article in German.] The description of a new thallium arsenosulfosalt, imhofite, found in the Lengenbach quarry, is given.
1969 Mineral. Abstr. XX. 15/2 The structures of the following complex sulphides are summarized:..imhofite, proustite, [etc.]... The greater part of these minerals are from Lengenbach, Binn valley, Switzerland.
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