fluocerite

English

Etymology

From fluo- +‎ cerite.

Noun

fluocerite (countable and uncountable, plural fluocerites)

1. (mineralogy) A cerium fluoride mineral found in Sweden.
   • 1875 [1835], Karl Friedrich Plattner, translated by Henry B. Cornwall, Plattner's Manual of Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis with the Blowpipe‎^[1], translation of Die Probierkunst mit dem Löthrohr (in German), page 202:

     Fluocerite in the matrass yields water and at the melting point of glass the matrass is attacked at a distance from the assay.

   • 1921, Per Geijer, “On Fluocerite and Tysonite”, in Geologiska Föreningen i Stockholm Förhandlingar, volume 43:

     From an analysis of a specimen from Broddbo, Berzelius considered it a combination of the fluorine and the fluoride of cerium. The name fluocerite was given by Haidinger. Crystallographic data about the fluocerite from Broddbo have been published by A. E. Nordenskiöld and G. Flink.

   • 1983, Mineralogical magazine, volume 47, page 42:

     This shows that all fluocerites are strongly enriched in LRE but the proportions vary as shown by the sum of La + Ce + Pr which varies from 70 to 96% of the total RE content.

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Fluocerite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “fluocerite”, in Mindat.org‎^[2], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.