heulandite

English

Etymology

Heuland +‎ -ite after British mineral collector John Henry Heuland (1778-1856).[1]

Noun

heulandite (countable and uncountable, plural heulandites)

  1. (mineralogy) A common mineral of the zeolite group with monoclinic crystals, the most usual form being heulandite-Ca (Ca,Na)2-3Al3(Al,Si)2Si13O36·12H2O.

Further reading
  • “Heulandite” in David Barthelmy, Webmineral Mineralogy Database, 1997–.
  • “heulandite”, in Mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, accessed 29 August 2016.
  1. Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine W. Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig: Dana's new mineralogy, John Wiley & Sons, 1997.
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