Talk:hampshirite

There is some evidence that this is a word for a particular kind of rock. I will store that evidence here for now. 1. — Beobach 21:55, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

• 1910, the Bulletin of the Minnesota Academy of Natural Sciences, volumes 4-5, published by the Minnesota Academy of Natural Sciences, page 272 (in the section Mineral Resembling Meerschaum):

  [...] and that afterwards the crystals of iron oxide and hampshirite developed from elements distributed through the soft mass.

  [...]

  The locality of these minerals is exactly on the line of Middlefield, Hampshire county, and Chester, Hampden county, [...] From this justaposition the name hampdenite seems appropriate to the pseudo-meerschaum which I have described as the matrix of hampshirite and magnetite, and the name hampshirite, the same as has been used by Emmons, Dewey and Herman, to the orthorhombic crystals described and figured in this paper, imbedded with large crystals of magnetite in the mineral, pseudo-meerschaum, herein named hampdenite.