ehlite
noun · first attested 19th century
Wiktionary places this one near Linz in Austria; the village is actually on the Rhine in Germany, several hundred kilometers away.
An obsolete name for green copper phosphate crusts, now known to be pseudomalachite.
50.5703°N 7.2847°E · Q390125
Record
- Relationship
- Named from the place
- Confidence
- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 19th century
- Part of speech
- noun
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- Step 1
Linz am Rhein
- In English
ehlite
Ehlite was named for the village of Ehl, now called Obererl, in Kasbach-Ohlenberg near Linz am Rhein in Rhineland-Palatinate. In 1950 L. G. Berry examined specimens labeled ehlite drawn from several museum collections and found every one of them to be pseudomalachite. The name has not been a valid species since, but it survives on old labels and in dictionaries.