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Named for type locality Abukuma River (in Japan) where it was mined + -lite.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
abukumalite
Today it means: A mineral, (Ca,Y)₅(P,Si)₃O₁₂(OH,F), that can contain uranium or thorium. The mineral was renamed britholite-(Y) in 1966 because of its similarity to britholite and because of its yttrium-dominant composition. Full definition →