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Homilite

Homilite \Hom"i*lite\, n. [From Gr. ? to be in company with.] (Min.) A borosilicate of iron and lime, near datolite in form and composition.

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homilite

n. (context mineral English) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing boron, calcium, iron, magnesium, oxygen, and silicon.

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Homilite

Homilite is a borosilicate mineral belonging to the gadolinite group of minerals with formula Ca(Fe,Mg)BSiO.

It occurs as brown monoclinic crystals within feldspar masses in pegmatite and was discovered in 1876 in Stoko island, Langesundfiord, Norway. The name is from the Greek for to occur together, in allusion to its association with meliphanite and allanite.