† schrötteriten.
Mineralogy. Obsolete.
A name formerly applied to greenish opaline specimens of allophane.
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1844 J. D. Dana Syst. Mineral. (ed. 2) 531 Schrötterite. Resembles allophane, and has been called opal allophane.
1855 D. T. Ansted et al. in Orr's Circle Sci.: Inorg. Nature 516 Schrotterite.
1858 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 76 79 The fragment of rock upon which the Schrötterite occurs is a dark-colored bituminous slate.
1934 Prof. U.S. Geol. Surv. No. 185. 146/2 The analyses reported in this paper and earlier studies by others have discredited all the known reported occurrences of schrötterite, including the type material... Schrötterite should be entirely discarded as a mineral name.
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