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Thomsonite is the name of a series of tecto-silicate minerals of the zeolite group. Prior to 1997, thomsonite was recognized as a mineral species, but a reclassification in 1997 by the International Mineralogical Association changed it to a series name, with the mineral species being named thomsonite-Ca and thomsonite-Sr. Thomsonite-Ca, by far the...
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• (n.) A zeolitic mineral, occurring generally in masses of a radiated structure. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia, lime, and soda. Called also mesole, and comptonite.
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rare mineral in the zeolite family, similar to natrolite (q.v.).
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Thom'son·ite noun [ From R. Dutch
Thomson , of Glasgow.]
(Min.) A zeolitic mineral, occurring generally in masses of a radiated structure. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia, lime, and soda. Called also
mesole , and
comptonite .
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Thomsonite (mesole, or comptonite), named by its discoverer, the English mineralogist Brook after his friend Thomas Thomson, of Glasgow, is a zeolitic mineral, occurring generally in masses of a radiated structure. Thomsonite is found fairly abundantly in cavities of phonolites and basalt rocks, more rarely in pegmatite veins. It is a hydrous silic...
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