Eulytite


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Eu´ly`tite


n. 1. (Min.) A mineral, consisting chiefly of the silicate of bismuth, found at Freiberg; - called also culytine.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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The eulytite crystals like bismuth germanate ([Bi.sub.4][Ge.sub.3][O.sub.12], BGO) have a considerable importance due to their remarkable characteristics such as large light output, fast luminescent decay time, low afterglow, and good radiation hardness [1].
Petkova, "Phonon spectra of eulytite crystals [Bi.sub.4][M.sub.3][O.sub.12] (M = Ge,Si): ab initio study," Optical Materials, vol.
It is commonly associated with other bismuth minerals including native bismuth, bismuthinite, bismutite, bismite, beyerite, eulytite, pucherite, schumacherite and clinobisvanite.
(1995) report that namibite occurs associated with schumacherite, eulytite (?), pucherite (?), mrazekite and chrysocolla from a skarn on the western side of a gorge on Morass Creek, north of Benambra, Victoria, Australia.
Eulytite (?): A mineral occurring as botryoidal coatings and as minute spheres enclosed by schumacherite was encountered during microprobe analysis.
A new occurence of mrazekite from Benambra, Victoria, Australia