Prehnite
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
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- prehnite A mineral, usually of a pale-green color and vitreous luster, commonly occurring in botryoidal or globular forms with crystalline surface. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminium and calcium, allied to the zeolites, and is found with them in veins and geodes, most frequently in rocks of the basaltic type. Also called edelite.
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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
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- n Prehnite pren′īt a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime, usually of a pale-green colour.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
So called from the German Colonel Prehn, who first found it
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
Named after Prehn, the discoverer of the mineral.