chabazite

English

Chabazite

Etymology

From French chabasie, coined by Louis-Augustin Bosc d'Antic from Ancient Greek χαβάζιος (khabázios), apparently an error for χαλάζιος (khalázios, “a kind of precious stone”) (which is probably from χάλαζα (khálaza, “hail”), due to looking like a hailstone), one of twenty species of stones mentioned in the poem ascribed to Orpheus.

Noun

chabazite (plural chabazites)

  1. (mineralogy) Any of several zeolite minerals that occur in basaltic rocks.

Further reading

  • “Chabazite” in David Barthelmy, Webmineral Mineralogy Database, 1997–.
  • chabazite mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, accessed 29 August 2016
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