vanthoffite

Etymology
From, named for Dutch physical chemist and Nobel Prize winner Jacobus Hendricus van 't Hoff, Jr (1852-1911).

Noun

 * 1)  A monoclinic-prismatic colorless mineral containing magnesium, oxygen, sodium, and sulfur.
 * 2) * 1968, Robert Kühn, Geochemistry of the German Potash Deposits, Richard B. Mattox (editor), Saline Deposits: A Symposium based on Papers from the International Conference on Saline Deposits, Houton Texas, 1962, Geological Society of America, Special Paper 88, page 431,
 * At high temperatures there is a separation of the “thermophile” salts, halite, anhydrite, thenardite, bloedite, vanthoffite, loeweite, kainite, and langbeinite, which have a negative coefficient of solubility.
 * 1) * 1980, P. A. Storm, The Great Salt Lake Brine System, J. Wallace Gwynn (editor), Great Salt Lake: A Scientific, Historical and Economic Overview, Utah Geological and Mineral Survey, Bulletin 116, page 150,
 * Other sodium bearing minerals that can be produced through solar evaporation are astrakainite. glaserite, and vanthoffite.
 * Other sodium bearing minerals that can be produced through solar evaporation are astrakainite. glaserite, and vanthoffite.