Well attestedNamed from the place
bromlite
noun · first attested 1837
The same mineral got two place names four years apart, and both are still in use.
A rare double carbonate of barium and calcium, BaCa(CO3)2; also called alstonite.
54.8120°N -2.4410°W · Q2512942
Record
- Relationship
- Named from the place
- Confidence
- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 1837
- Part of speech
- noun
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Alston Moor
- In English
bromlite
Thomas Thomson named bromlite in 1837 after Bromley Hill, the lead mine near Alston in Cumberland whose specimens reached him through a dealer in 1834. August Breithaupt of the Freiberg Mining Academy named the same mineral alstonite in 1841 after the town instead. The mine is now usually written Brownley Hill, so the mineral preserves a spelling the map has abandoned.
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