Well attestedNamed from the place
burpalite
noun · first attested 1988
An obscure alkaline intrusion in the mountains north of Lake Baikal has produced a long list of minerals found nowhere else.
A sodium calcium zirconium silicate of the wohlerite group.
Severo-Baykalsky District·Russia
56.0000°N 111.5000°E · Q1418114
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- Relationship
- Named from the place
- Confidence
- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 1988
- Part of speech
- noun
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Severo-Baykalsky District
- In English
burpalite
A. P. Khomyakov and colleagues described burpalite in 1988 from the Burpala massif in North Transbaikal. Merlino and Perchiazzi solved its crystal structure in 1990 and showed it has order-disorder character, with stacking variants along one axis. Type material is split between Moscow, Pisa and London.
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