newberyite Min.
(ˈnjuːbərɪaɪt)
[ad. G. newberyit (G. vom Rath (at the suggestion of G. Ulrich) 1879, in Sitzungsber. der niederrhein. Ges. in Bonn XXXVI. 8), f. the name of J. Cosmo Newbery (19th-cent. Australian mineralogist) + -it -ite1.]
A hydrated magnesium acid phosphate, MgH(PO4).3H2O, which is found as colourless orthorhombic crystals.
| 1879 Mineral. Mag. III. 108 Newberyite... Found at Skipton Caves, Victoria, with Hannayite. 1928 Amer. Mineralogist XIII. 397 (heading) Newberyite and other phosphates from Ascension Island. 1957 Mineral. Mag. XIII. 190 Newberyite, together with pyrrhotine and vivianite, was found in cracks of mammoth tusk buried in clay. 1966 Amer. Mineralogist LI. 1764 Subsequent submergence and removal of the source of ammonia permitted the replacement of struvite by newberyite in a subaqueous environment. |