A phase of aluminium hydroxide, Al(OH)₃, that has a triclinic crystalline structure.
Origin
1960s; earliest use found in Nature: a weekly journal of science. From French nordstrandite from the name of Robert A. van Nordstrand, 20th-cent. U.S. chemist + -ite.
Definition of nordstrandite in US English:
nordstrandite
nounˈnɔːdstrəndʌɪt
Mineralogy
A phase of aluminium hydroxide, Al(OH)₃, that has a triclinic crystalline structure.
Origin
1960s; earliest use found in Nature: a weekly journal of science. From French nordstrandite from the name of Robert A. van Nordstrand, 20th-cent. U.S. chemist + -ite.