saléeite Min.
(ˈsæleɪaɪt)
orig. saléite; also without accent.
[ad. F. saléite (Thoreau & Vaes 1932, in Bull. de la Soc. géol. de Belgique XLII. 96), f. the name of Achille Salée (d. 1932), Belgian palæontologist: see -ite1.]
A hydrated phosphate of magnesium and uranium, Mg(UO2)2(PO4)2·10H2O, which occurs as yellow crystals in association with torbernite as an oxidation product of uranium minerals.
| 1934 Chem. Abstr. XXVIII. 5372 Saleite is the Mg analog of autunite. 1940 Mineral. Mag. XXV. 643 Saleeite. A. Schoep... The correct form of saleite. 1951 Amer. Mineralogist XXXVI. 681 Under the microscope, the saléeite from Portugal appears as rectangular plates with the corners sometimes truncated at 45°. 1959 in G. J. Williams Econ. Geol. N.Z. (1965) xiii. 206/2 The yellow coating of secondary uranium mineral..forms small plates and is an unidentified member of the sabugalite-saleeite-novacekite group. |