cyanophyllite
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek κυανός (kuanós, “blue-green”) + φύλλον (phúllon, “leaf”) for its color and crystal habit, + -ite.
Noun
[edit]cyanophyllite
- (mineralogy, outdated) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal greenish blue mineral containing aluminum, antimony, copper, hydrogen, and oxygen. A polytype of cualstibite, and discredited for such in 2012.
Further reading
[edit]- David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Cyanophyllite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
- “Cualstibite-1M”, in Mindat.org[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.