Well attestedNamed from the place
pretulite
noun · first attested 1998
One of the very few minerals in which scandium is an essential, named element rather than a trace.
A scandium phosphate, ScPO4.
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- Relationship
- Named from the place
- Confidence
- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 1998
- Part of speech
- noun
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Pretulalpe
- In English
pretulite
Pretulite was described in 1998 from the Pretulalpe, a ridge in the Fischbach Alps of Styria, where it turned up in lazulite bearing quartz veins. Scandium almost never forms minerals of its own because its ionic size lets it hide inside other structures, so a scandium phosphate was a real find. Further occurrences were then recognized nearby in Lower Austria.
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