Well attestedNamed from the place
mordenite
noun · first attested 1864
A crumb of Nova Scotian basalt now underwrites a chunk of the world's petrochemical industry.
A zeolite, a hydrous sodium calcium potassium aluminosilicate.
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- Relationship
- Named from the place
- Confidence
- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 1864
- Part of speech
- noun
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Morden
- In English
mordenite
Henry How described mordenite in 1864 from the basalt cliffs at Morden on the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia. Its open framework makes it a useful molecular sieve, and synthetic mordenite is used as a catalyst and sorbent in refining. The same mineral was for decades also called ptilolite until the two names were shown to describe one species.
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