chloropal
English
Etymology
chloro- + opal
Noun
chloropal (plural chloropals)
- (mineralogy) A massive mineral, greenish in colour and opal-like in appearance, essentially a hydrous silicate of iron.
- 1877, J. H. Collins, “Remarks on Gramenite from Smallacombe, and on the Chloropal Group of Minerals”, in The Mineralogical Magazine and Journal of the Mineralogical Society, page 70:
- A careful consideration of the various analyses of minerals of the chloropal group given by Dana, leads me, therefore, to propose that the following species and varieties should be regarded as a series of types to which all future discoveries in the group may be referred.
- 1905, B. K. Emerson, “Plumose diabase and palagonite from the Holyoke trap sheet”, in Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, volume 16, page 105:
- Several delessites and chloropals occurring in basalts have a composition very close to that of the glass.
- 1969, T. R. Meyers, The Geology of New Hampshire: Minerals and mines, page 18:
- Nontronite, a variety of chloropal occurs as a light yellow powder in druses of the North Conway granite (99, p. 312).
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Further reading
- “Chloropal” in David Barthelmy, Webmineral Mineralogy Database, 1997–.