serendibiten.
/səˈrɛndɪbʌɪt//sərɛnˈdɪbʌɪt/ Mineralogy.
A borosilicate of aluminium, calcium, and magnesium, (Ca,Mg)5Al5BSi3 O20, found as bluish triclinic crystals in which iron often replaces some of the aluminium and magnesium.
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1902 Nature 20 Feb. 383/2 Messrs. G. T. Prior and A. K. Coomára-Swámy gave an account of the mode of occurrence and characters of ‘serendibite’, a new boro-silicate from Ceylon.
1978 W. A. Deer et al. Introd. Rock-forming Minerals (ed. 2) II a. 661 A number of serendibite..occurrences in spinel-diopside skarns have been described from the Tayezhnoye iron ore localities of southern Yakutia... Serendibite is also found with sinhalite, warwickite and tourmaline..in the skarns of Handemi district, Tanzania.
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