prehnite

English
Prehnite

Etymology

Named in 1789 after Hendrik Von Prehn (1733-1785),[1] Dutch colonial governor. This was the first mineral to be named after a person.

Noun

prehnite (countable and uncountable, plural prehnites)

  1. (mineralogy) A mineral, a basic calcium, aluminium and iron aluminosilicate, which occurs in stalactitic aggregates or curved crystals, Ca2Al2Si3O10(OH)2.

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Further reading
  • “Prehnite” in David Barthelmy, Webmineral Mineralogy Database, 1997–.
  • “prehnite”, 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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