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wa⋅vell⋅ite

  [wey-vuh-lahyt]
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–noun Mineralogy.
a hydrous aluminum fluorophosphate occurring as white to yellowish-green or brown aggregates of radiating fibers.
Origin:
named in 1805 after W. Wavell (d. 1829), English physician, its discoverer; see -ite 1
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wa·vel·lite   (wā'və-līt')   
n.  A colorless to greenish yellow or black mineral, Al3(PO4)2(OH)3·5H2O, having finely acicular, radiating crystals and sometimes mined for the extraction of phosphorous.

[After W. Wavell (died 1829), British physician.]
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hydrated aluminum phosphate [Al3(PO4)2(OH)35H2O], a common phosphate mineral that typically occurs as translucent, greenish, globular masses in crevices in aluminous metamorphic rocks, in limonite and phosphate-rock deposits, and in hydrothermal veins. Occurrences include Zbiroh, Czech Republic; Montebras, France; Barnstaple, Devon, Eng., where it was first found; Llallagua, Bolivia; and Dunnellon, Fla., U.S. For detailed physical properties, see phosphate mineral (table)

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