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单词 rhaetizite
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rhaetiziten.

Brit. /ˈriːtᵻʒʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈreɪdəˌzaɪt/, /ˈridəˌzaɪt/
Forms: 1800s– rhaetizite, 1800s– rhetizite, 1800s rhoetizite (irregular).
Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymon: German Rhätizit.
Etymology: < German Rhätizit (A. G. Werner 1815, also as Rhätzit , in C. A. S. Hoffman Handbuch der Mineralogie II. 319, IV. 128), apparently < the name of Rhaetia (German Rhätien : see Rhaetian n.) + -it -ite suffix1, although the element -iz- is unexplained.
Mineralogy. Now historical and rare.
A silicate of aluminium now regarded as identical with kyanite.
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1816 R. Jameson Syst. Mineral. (ed. 2) II. 424 Rhaetizite... It occurs at Pfizsch in the Tyrol.
1837 J. D. Dana Syst. Mineral. 319 A milk-white variety of Rhœtizite.
1867 Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. N.Y. 8 188 It [sc. kyanite]..seems to pass by imperceptible shades of color into a bluish or greyish-green mineral..in which case it loses its fibrous character and becomes bladed like rhetizite.
1890 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 139 49 There is hardly a specimen of the andalusite, rhætizite and cyanite in which muscovite could not be observed as a direct alteration of these minerals.
1920 A. H. Fay Gloss. Mining & Mineral Industry 568/1 Rhaetizite, a white variety of cyanite found in Tyrol.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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