otaviten.
/əʊˈtɑːvʌɪt/, U.S. /oʊˈtɑˌvaɪt/ Mineralogy.
A mineral of the trigonal system consisting of cadmium carbonate, CdCO3, and occurring as crusts of minute rhombohedral crystals, usually white or greyish white in colour.
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1906 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 90 ii. 620 A new mineral which is named otavite, after the locality.
1921 Brit. Mus. Return 159 Minerals from the Otavi district in S.W. Africa, e.g., otavite, phosgenite, anglesite, cuprodescloizite.
1967 Soviet Physics: Crystallogr. 12 417 Artificial otavite..crystals were obtained, which were activated by Co+2 so that EPR spectra of the magnetic Co+2 ion were observed at varying orientations of the external magnetic field.
1992 Jrnl. Hydrol. 133 201 The migration of cadmium species..was controlled by chemical precipitation of otavite and a slow redissolution of this compound.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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