Anglesite

Origin

After the place Anglesey in Wales,

James D. Dana: Dana's System of Mineralogy. Volume II, seventh edition, revised by Charles Palache, Harry Berman, and Clifford Frondel. John Wiley & Sons, 1951

in 1832.

Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine W. Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig: Dana's new mineralogy, John Wiley & Sons, 1997

Noun

anglesite

(countable and uncountable; plural anglesites)

(mineral) A crystalline mineral form of lead sulfate, PbSO

4, formed by the weathering of galena.

1862 Sir Edward Cadogan - Before the Deluge: Memories and ReflectionsA curious form of anglesite was noticed in a specimen from Durango, Iowa

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