Well attestedNamed from the place
rengeite
noun · first attested 2001
It was found by sawing open jade pebbles picked off a Japanese beach.
A strontium zirconium titanium silicate, the Sr and Zr analog of perrierite.
36.5358°N 137.7106°E · Q11621750
Record
- Relationship
- Named from the place
- Confidence
- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 2001
- Part of speech
- noun
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Mount Renge
- In English
rengeite
Hiroyuki Miyajima and colleagues described rengeite in 2001 from jadeitite of the Itoigawa and Ōmi district in Niigata Prefecture, in boulders from the Kotaki and Hime rivers and pebbles from the shore at Oyashirazu. It is named for Mount Renge and for the Renge metamorphic belt, the high pressure belt that produced the jade. Itoigawa jade has been worked in Japan since the Jōmon period.
Japan
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