Well attestedNamed from the place
fichtelite
noun · first attested 1841
A mineral as soft as talc and barely denser than water, sitting inside buried pine logs.
A rare white crystalline hydrocarbon mineral, C19H34, found in fossilized conifer wood.
50.0500°N 11.8500°E · Q157728
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- Named from the place
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- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 1841
- Part of speech
- noun
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fichtelite
Fichtelite was first described in 1841 from fossil pine wood in a peat bog in the Fichtelgebirge of northern Bavaria. Its specific gravity is 1.032, so it only just sinks, and its Mohs hardness of 1 matches talc. It has since been found in organic-rich modern marine sediments, which makes it a marker for buried plant resin chemistry.
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