spanditen.
/ˈspandʌɪt/ Mineralogy.
A manganiferous garnet resembling spessartine but containing more iron and calcium.
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1907 Rec. Geol. Surv. India XXXV. 22 The garnet is intermediate in composition between spessartite and andradite, and..Mr. Fermor proposes to introduce the term spessart-andradite, which may be shortened for convenience in general use to spandite.
1955 J. C. Brown & A. K. Dey India's Mineral Wealth (ed. 3) 606 Spandite, a garnet intermediate in composition between spessartite and andradite, occurs in the Kodurite series of the Srikakulam district of Andhra. It varies in colour from deep orange to brown orange-red and blood-red and never displays the lighter orange shades of the true spessartite.
1972 Mineral. Abstr. XXXIII. 121/1 X-ray data for hiddenite diopside, [etc.]..and a probable spandite are given.
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