A mineral or crystalline substance, possibly named with reference to alum or aluminum compounds.
Formed with mineralogical suffix -ite; likely derived from ala- (wing, or possibly relating to alum) plus -ite. The specific compound is unclear in modern usage.
Alalite, like many mineral names, probably sits in dusty geology texts—some minerals are named and then never found again, becoming fossils in the fossil record of science itself!
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