Well attestedNamed from the place
amstallite
noun · first attested 1987
A mineral named for a hamlet so small that name-matching software routinely gives up and pins the whole country instead.
A hydrated calcium aluminum silicate containing both hydroxide and chloride.
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- Relationship
- Named from the place
- Confidence
- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 1987
- Part of speech
- noun
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Amstall
- In English
amstallite
R. Quint described amstallite in 1987 in Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie from Amstall, a locality in the Krems district of Lower Austria. Its formula carries a partial chloride site, unusual for a rock-forming aluminosilicate. Type material is split between the Institute of Mineralogy and Crystallography at Vienna University and the Natural History Museum in Vienna.
Austria
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