a green secondary mineral consisting of hydrated aluminium phosphate
Word origin
from Medieval Latin Variscia, the district of Vogtland in Saxony
Examples of 'variscite' in a sentence
variscite
We recorded 7 variscite extraction points, 4 trench mines, and numerous prehistoric mining tools.
Odriozola, Carlos P., Villalobos-García, Rodrigo 2015, 'La explotación de variscita en el Sinforme de Terena: el complejo minero de Pico Centeno(Encinasola, Huelva)', Trabajos de Prehistoriahttp://tp.revistas.csic.es/index.php/tp/article/view/708/732. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Brushite, taranakite, leucophosphite and variscite are the other phosphates identified.
Alexandra Giurgiu, Tudor Tămaş 2013, 'Mineralogical data on bat guano deposits from three Romanian caves', Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai: Geologiahttp://scholarcommons.usf.edu/geologia/vol58/iss2/art2/. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)