eucolite Min.
(ˈjuːkəlaɪt)
Also eukolite, -yte.
[f. Gr. εὔκολ-ος easily satisfied (f. εὐ- (see eu-) + κόλον food) + -ite. The name is founded on the fact that it contains less zirconia than wöhlerite does.]
A variety of eudialyte.
| 1847 Scheerer in Pogg. Ann. 565 [Explains that he gave this name to the mineral ‘because it contented itself, so to speak, with iron oxide in default of zirconia’]. 1849 Amer. Jrnl. Sc. Ser. ii. VIII. 126 On Eukolite, a new Mineral. 1868 Dana Min. 249 Eucolite is from islands of the Langesund fiord in Norway. 1882 Watts Dict. Chem. II. 605 Eukolyte is distinguished by the presence of cerium. |