taenioliten.
/tiːnɪˈəʊlʌɪt/ Mineralogy.
A rare colourless mica containing lithium and magnesium but without essential aluminium.
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1899 G. Flink in Meddelelser om Grønland XXIV. 116 The name of tainiolite that I have given the mineral is derived from the Greek word ταινία, a band or strip, because the crystals always have the form of bands or strips.
1900 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 160 324 Tainiolite (tæniolite) is a kind of mica occurring in elongated colorless crystals.
1938 Amer. Mineralogist 23 110 Because of the absence of essential aluminum, taeniolite is unique among the micas.
1962 W. A. Deer et al. Rock-forming Minerals III. 89 A very rare mica, taeniolite (ideal formula K2Mg4Li2Si8O20F4), has no aluminium... It may be regarded as a magnesian lepidolite although it could be classed also as a lithian phlogopite.
1968 I. Kostov Mineral. 361 Tainiolite.
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