Came across the word "heulandite", thought it was weird so I
looked it up in the dictionary and found that it means: "a group
of minerals of the zeolite family consisting of a hydrous
aluminum silicate of sodium and calcium." I looked up "-ite" on
etymonline.com so I suspect the suffix comes from Greek meaning:
"connected with or belonging to." Where does the "heuland" part
come from? Is it related to "andesite" or maybe something else?
closed as general reference by TimLymington, Jon Hanna, tchrist,
Kris, FumbleFingers Feb 23 at 13:50 This question is too basic;
it can be definitively and permanently answered by a single link
to a standard internet reference source designed specifically to
find that type of information. See the FAQ for guidance on how
to improve it. OED gives it as named after a mineralogist
(presumably the chap who first identified it): In that regard,
the name is related to Andesite in as much as it's named after a
particular property of the mineral: in this case, who identified
it; in the