The Tale of Greenlandite: Commemorating the Two-Hundredth Anniversary of Eudialyte (1819–2019)
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, P.O. Box 460, SE-405 30 Göteborg, Sweden
Minerals 2019, 9(8), 497; https://doi.org/10.3390/min9080497
Received: 15 July 2019 / Revised: 14 August 2019 / Accepted: 16 August 2019 / Published: 19 August 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Zr-minerals)
Twenty years before the discovery of the mineral eudialyte, a red garnet-like mineral from Greenland was distributed among mineralogists and chemists in Europe. Furthermore, the first chemical analyses of the Greenlandic mineral reported 10 percent by weight of zirconium oxide. It was given the name greenlandite, and after the discovery of eudialyte many have wondered whether greenlandite could actually be eudialyte. Two-hundred years after the original definition of eudialyte I have tried to find out.
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Keywords:
eudialyte; greenlandite; garnet; grenat en masse; schaliger Pyrop
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Chicago/Turabian StyleSjöqvist, Axel S.L. 2019. "The Tale of Greenlandite: Commemorating the Two-Hundredth Anniversary of Eudialyte (1819–2019)" Minerals 9, no. 8: 497. https://doi.org/10.3390/min9080497
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