newberyiten.
/ˈnjuːb(ə)rɪˌʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈn(j)uˌbɛriˌaɪt/ Mineralogy.
A hydrated orthorhombic magnesium acid phosphate, MgH(PO4)·3H2O, which occurs as colourless crystals.
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newberyite1879
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1879 Mineral. Mag. 3 108 Newberyite... Found at Skipton Caves, Victoria, with Hannayite.
1882 Amer. Naturalist 16 835 A. Schmidt described small transparent crystals of newberyite from Mejellones, Chili. They occur in crevices in guano.
1957 Mineral. Mag. 13 190 Newberyite, together with pyrrhotine and vivianite, was found in cracks of mammoth tusk buried in clay.
1966 Amer. Mineralogist 51 1764 Subsequent submergence and removal of the source of ammonia permitted the replacement of struvite by newberyite in a subaqueous environment.
1980 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 288 535 There are few orthorhombic phosphates with the kind of simple chemistry that present analyses suggest. Of these, the most likely are newberyite, a hydrated magnesium phosphate.., and struvite.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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