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单词 poonahlite
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poonahliten.

Brit. /ˈpuːnəlʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈpunəˌlaɪt/
Forms: 1800s poonalite, 1800s punahlite, 1800s– poonahlite.
Origin: From proper names, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Poonah , -lite comb. form1.
Etymology: < the name of Poonah, Poonah (now Pune : see Poona n. and adj.), where the mineral was first found + -lite comb. form1.
Mineralogy. Now rare.
A mineral occurring as white needle-like crystals, now regarded as a variety of mesolite.
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1831 H. J. Brooke in Philos. Mag. 2nd Ser. 10 110 Poonahlite..a beautiful variety of apophyllite from Poonah,..accompanied by some slender crystals, which I at first supposed were mesotype or needle-stone, but which differ from both substances in measurement; the Poonahlite being a rhombic prism of 92°20′.
1866 H. Watts Dict. Chem. Index Punahlite.
1896 A. H. Chester Dict. Names Minerals 216 Poonalite, a syn. of scolecite.
1909 Mineral. Mag. 15 216 Among the zeolite specimens from the neighbourhood of Bombay..showing pale green crystals of apophyllite associated with white stilbite and white silky needles labelled as ‘poonahlite’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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