| 单词 |
thomsonite |
| 释义 |
thomsonite Min.|ˈtɒmsənaɪt| [Named, 1820, after Dr. Thomas Thomson (1773–1852), professor of chemistry at Glasgow: see -ite1.] Hydrous silicate of aluminium, calcium, and sodium, found often in fibrous radiated masses, white to reddish-brown in colour; = comptonite.
1820H. J. Brooke in Ann. Philos. Sept. 193, I shall call the Auvergne variety, Mesotype; that from Iceland and Ferro, Needlestone; and that from Dumbarton, Thomsonite, after the editor of this journal [Dr. T. Thomson]. 1843Portlock Geol. 215 Thomsonite..is rarely met in Irish trap. 1869Phillips Vesuv. x. 294 Thomsonite, or Comptonite [occurs] in ejected blocks of gray lava. |

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