Well attestedNamed from the place
congolite
noun · first attested 1972
It was picked out of the crushed residue of a drill core through buried salt beds.
A trigonal iron borate chloride of the boracite group, Fe3B7O13Cl.
Republic of the Congo·Republic of the Congo
-0.7500°S 15.3833°E · Q971
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- Named from the place
- Confidence
- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 1972
- Part of speech
- noun
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Republic of the Congo
- In English
congolite
Wendling, von Hodenberg and Kuhn described congolite in 1972 in the German journal Kali und Steinsalz, from sedimentary evaporites near Brazzaville. It is the trigonal iron analog of boracite and sits in a phase series with trembathite. Its only other well-documented occurrence is the Penobsquis potash mine in New Brunswick, Canada.