tosuditen.
/ˈtəʊsjʊdʌɪt/ Mineralogy.
A blue mixed-layer clay mineral (see quots.).
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1964 Mineral. Abstr. 16 549/2 This newly characterized mixed-layer mineral consisting of unusual aluminian chlorite and montmorillonite is named tosudite, in honour of Toshio Sudo, who described the Japanese occurrences.
1976 Clays & Clay Minerals XXIV. 142/1 The name tosudite is usually used for a regularly interstratified mineral with dioctahedral or di-trioctahedral chlorite component.
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n.1964