nosean
/ˈnəʊzɪən/(also noseane) Mineralogy
noun
A mineral of the sodalite group, a silicate and sulphate of sodium and aluminium, Na8Al6Si6O24(SO4), that crystallizes in the cubic system and occurs in phonolites and related volcanic rocks.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Thomas Thomson. From the name of K. W. Nose, German geologist who described the mineral + -an, after German Nosian.