cerine Min.
(ˈsɪəraɪn)
[f. cer-ium + -ine; named (in Swedish) by Hisinger in 1815.]
A variety of the mineral allanite or cerium-epidote.
| 1814 Allan Min. Nomen. s.v. Cerium, Brown Oxide, Allanite, Cerin. 1868 Dana Min. (1880) 286 s.v. Allanite, Cerine is the same thing..subtranslucent in thin splinters. Ibid. 289 Cerine occurs at Bastnäs in Sweden. |