rosenbuschite Min.
(ˈrəʊzənbʊʃaɪt, rəʊzənˈbʊʃaɪt)
[ad. Norw. rosenbuschit (W. C. Brögger 1887, in Geol. För. i Stockholm Förh. IX. 254), f. the name of K. H. F. Rosenbusch (1836–1914), German mineralogist and geologist: see -ite1.]
A fluorine-containing alumino-silicate of calcium, sodium, zirconium, and titanium occurring as radiating groups of slender triclinic crystals of an orange or grey colour.
| 1890 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. LVIII. 1079 Rosenbuschite..presents sufficient analogies to pectolite for it to be described as a zircon-pectolite. 1966 W. A. Deer et al. Introd. Rock-Forming Minerals 60 Rosenbuschite occurs as an accessory mineral in nepheline-syenite, but is a more frequent constituent of nepheline-syenite pegmatites. |