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The nomenclature of the halloysite minerals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Douglas M. C. MacEwan
Douglas M. C. MacEwan*
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Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden, Herts
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The name ‘halloysite’, first used in 1826 by Berthier, is derived from that of Omalius d'Halloy, who found the mineral in Angleur, Liége, Belgium. In 1935, Mehmel discovered that there were two distinct substances included under the name halloysite, one of which contains loosely bound water and shows a 10 Å. basal reflection on an X-ray diagram, the other none and shows a reflection at about 7 Å. Mehmel preserved the name halloysite for the hydrous mineral, and for the product of its dehydration he proposed the name ‘metahalloysite’. Both substances may occur naturally (though this may not have been known to Mehmel at the time). Previous to this work it had been suggested by Hofmann, Endell, and Wilm that the 10 Å. material on dehydration at a low temperature gave kaolinite. Mehmel showed that this was wrong; and that the error was due to the similarity of the X-ray diagrams of kaolinite and metahalloysite. Hofmann and co-workers, and Mehmel, all tacitly assumed that the name halloysite was correctly applied to the 10 Å. material rather than the 7 Å. material.

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Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 28 , Issue 196 , March 1947 , pp. 36 - 44
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1947

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