Well attestedNamed from the place
franklinphilite
noun · first attested 1992
The second half of the name is Greek for loving: mineralogists cannot leave this one New Jersey orebody alone.
A potassium manganese aluminosilicate of the stilpnomelane group.
41.1090°N -74.5886°W · Q1085963
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- Relationship
- Named from the place
- Confidence
- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 1992
- Part of speech
- noun
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franklinphilite
Pete Dunn and coauthors described franklinphilite in 1992 from Franklin, a borough in Sussex County, New Jersey. The zinc deposit there and at neighboring Sterling Hill has produced more than three hundred mineral species, several dozen of them found nowhere else. The suffix philite was chosen to mark that devotion rather than to describe the chemistry.
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