Petalite

<h2 id="discovery-and-occurrence">Discovery and occurrence</h2>

<p>Petalite was discovered in 1800, by Brazilian naturalist and statesman <a href="/facts/Jose_Bonifacio_de_Andrada_e_Silva/lpzDS2aF">Jose Bonifacio de Andrada e Silva</a>.  Type locality: <a href="/facts/Ut%25C3%25B6%2c_Sweden/AcT4RKoY">Utö Island</a>, <a href="/facts/Haninge/yln5K364">Haninge</a>, <a href="/facts/Stockholm%2c_Sweden/sD74W4Pm">Stockholm, Sweden</a>. The name is derived from the Greek word petalon, which means <i>leaf</i>, alluding to its perfect cleavage.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a>
</p><p>Economic deposits of petalite are found near <a href="/facts/Kalgoorlie/U1wXCWoK">Kalgoorlie</a>, <a href="/facts/Western_Australia/1ouCbwNh">Western Australia</a>; <a href="/facts/Aracuai/1fTgI2bj">Aracuai</a>, <a href="/facts/Minas_Gerais/73LdwKnD">Minas Gerais</a>, <a href="/facts/Brazil/QHkG46GL">Brazil</a>; <a href="/facts/Karibib/47ubA0jp">Karibib</a>, <a href="/facts/Namibia/ahXuaypy">Namibia</a>; <a href="/facts/Manitoba/QuCdIDYB">Manitoba</a>, <a href="/facts/Canada/cWWFM8oc">Canada</a>; and <a href="/facts/Bikita/au2jdsBA">Bikita</a>, <a href="/facts/Zimbabwe/8Yqt8490">Zimbabwe</a>.
</p><p>The first important economic application for petalite was as a raw material for the glass-ceramic cooking ware <a href="/facts/CorningWare/nIDURou8">CorningWare</a>. It has been used as a raw material for ceramic glazes.
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<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li> Media related to Petalite at Wikimedia Commons</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Petalite">"Petalite" </a>. <i><a href="/facts/Encyclop%25C3%25A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition/mPElbCRY">Encyclopædia Britannica</a></i>. Vol. 21 (11th ed.). 1911.</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Nickel, Ernest H.; Nichols, Monte C. "IMA/CNMNC List of Mineral Names" (PDF). Internet Archive. Materials Data, Inc. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 March 2009. Retrieved 12 December 2024. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090320163443/http://pubsites.uws.edu.au/ima-cnmnc/IMA2009-01%20UPDATE%20160309.pdf" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20090320163443/http://pubsites.uws.edu.au/ima-cnmnc/IMA2009-01%20UPDATE%20160309.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Deer, W. A. (2004). Framework silicates: silica minerals, feldspathoids and the zeolites (2. ed.). London: Geological Soc. p. 296. ISBN 978-1-86239-144-4. <a href="978-1-86239-144-4" target="_blank">978-1-86239-144-4</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>"Petalite". Mindat.org. <a href="http://www.mindat.org/show.php?id=3171" target="_blank">http://www.mindat.org/show.php?id=3171</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>D'Andraba (1800). "Des caractères et des propriétés de plusieurs nouveaux minérauxde Suède et de Norwège , avec quelques observations chimiques faites sur ces substances". Journal de Physique, de Chimie, d'Histoire Naturelle, et des Arts. 51: 239. <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Bonif%C3%A1cio_de_Andrada" target="_blank">/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Bonif%C3%A1cio_de_Andrada</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>Sowerby, James (1811). Exotic mineralogy: Or, Coloured figures of foreign minerals: As a supplement to British mineralogy. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=2RtaAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PT137" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=2RtaAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PT137</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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