gehlenite

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

GEHLENITE, noun [from Gehlen, the chimist.] A mineral recently discovered, in the description of which authors are not perfectly agreed. According to the description and analysis of Fuchs, it appears to be a variety of idocrase; but according to the observations of Prof. Clarke, it is probably a new species.
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