pretulite
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Named for type locality Pretul Mountain in the Fischbacher Alpine mountains (in Styria, Austria) + -ite.
Noun
[edit]pretulite
- (mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal pale pink mineral containing oxygen, phosphorus, and scandium.
Further reading
[edit]- David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Pretulite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
- “pretulite”, in Mindat.org[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.