Well attestedNamed from the place
zwieselite
noun · first attested 1841
From a Bavarian Forest pegmatite mined for quartz, not for the phosphates that made it famous.
An iron fluorophosphate, the ferrous analog of triplite.
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- Relationship
- Named from the place
- Confidence
- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 1841
- Part of speech
- noun
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Zwiesel
- In English
zwieselite
August Breithaupt named zwieselite in 1841 for its occurrence at the Hühnerkobel pegmatite at Rabenstein near Zwiesel in Lower Bavaria. The small quartz working there sits in the contact between mica granite and garnet gneiss and produced a celebrated suite of phosphate minerals. Zwiesel itself is better known today for glassmaking.
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