strunzite Min.
(ˈstrʌnzaɪt)
[ad. G. strunzite (C. Frondel 1957, in Neues Jahrb. f. Min.: Monatshefte 222), f. the name of K. Hugo Strunz (b. 1910), German mineralogist: see -ite1.]
A hydrated basic phosphate of manganese and iron, MnFe2(PO4)2(OH)2.8H2O, found as tiny yellow hair- or lath-like monoclinic crystals and produced by the weathering of manganese and iron phosphates.
| 1958 C. Frondel in Naturwissenschaften XLV. 38/1 Among the outstanding problems in the mineralogy of the hydrated phosphates of iron and manganese has been the identity of a straw yellow mineral first recognized in 1947... The writer takes pleasure in naming this mineral after Dr. Hugo Strunz, Professor of Mineralogy at Berlin. 1975 Mineral. Record VI. 71/2 Stewartite, strunzite, and cacoxenite, which in our specimens are confined to oxidized assemblage[s], are the products of weathering. |