Citations:hampshirite

Noun: (US) a (steatic) pseudomorph; a steatite of ___ pseudomorphs

 * 1907, Charles Palache, Occurrence of Olivine in the Serpentine of Chester and Middlefield, Mass., in the American Journal of Science, fourth series, volume 24 (174), page 493:
 * The curious appearance of these specimens of olivine embedded in serpentine recalled the description of the above mentioned hampshirite pseudomorphs as given by Emerson [...]
 * 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.
 * 1913, Austin F. Rogers, The Nomenclature of Minerals, in the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, volume 52, page 608:
 * Names are used not only for definite chemical compounds, which are often end members of isomorphic series, but also for isomorphous mixtures such as olivine, rhodolite, epidote, and pisanite; for double salts such as dolomite and monticellite; for pseudomorphs such as martite, arkansite, and hampshirite; for mechanical mixtures such as californite and azurlite; for semiprecious or ornamental stones such as bonamite and satelite; for artificial substances such as alite, cementine, silver-analcite, soda-leucite, and carnegieite; for group names such as orthoaugite [...]
 * 1947 February, Rocks and Minerals, volume 22, page 412:
 * One of the strangest stories of a lost mineral locality is tied up to the forgotten name hampshirite. If one looks for this name in Dana's System he will find it on page 675, listed under serpentine but described there as a steatic pseudomorph having mostly the form of quartz.