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Edingtonite is a white, gray, brown, colorless, pink or yellow zeolite mineral. Its chemical formula is BariumAluminium2Silicon3Oxygen10·4water. It has varieties with tetragonal, orthorhombic or triclinic crystals.Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine W. Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig: "Dana's new mineralogy", pp. 1683-1684. John Wiley & Sons, 1997
The mineral occurs within cavities in nepheline syenites, , in
hydrothermal veins and various mafic rocks. It occurs associated with thomsonite, analcime, natrolite, harmotome, brewsterite, prehnite and calcite.
The mineral was first reported by and named for Scottish mineral collector James Edington (1787–1844). Other sources (including the mineralogist Haidinger) credit Scottish geologist and mineralogist Thomas Edington (1814-1859). However, as the mineral was named in 1825, the former accreditation must be the true one.Wilhelm Karl von Haidinger, "Description of Edingtonite, a New Mineral Species", in The Edinburgh Journal of Science, V. iii, October 1825, pp. 316–320
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