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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X, list of scientific terms with Scottish connections).
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EDINGTONITE. Geol. A barium zeolite (1825 Edb. Journal of Science III. 316).
[So named by W. Haidinger from James Edington (1787–1844), of Glasgow, a mineral collector who found it in the vicinity.]
