337 - Apatite

ID	337
Mineral	Apatite
Location	Sahatany Valley - Ibity - Vakinankaratra - Madagascar
Fluorescence	LW-UV: close SW-UV: close
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ID	29229
Long ID	1:1:29229:0
Entry type	5
Description	"Apatite" is a field term for unidentified calcium phosphate members of the apatite group. Most "apatite" is fluorapatite, whereas hydroxylapatite is much less common and chlorapatite is very rare. "Apatite" crystals are short to long hexagonal pri...
About the name	The name ('apatit') was invented by A.G. Werner probably sometime in the mid-1780s, which he later described as being named from the Greek verb απατάω (strictly ἀπατάω; transliterated as apatáō) as the derivation, which means ‘to deceive’ (someone) or ‘to be deceptive’, because, as he wrote, "until now it has misled all mineralogists in its identification." (Roycroft & Cuypers, 2015).
key_elements	0
shortcode_ima	Ap
Group	Apatite Group

Apatite