An archaic or rare mineralogical term for a variant or alteration product of allophane.
Formed from 'allophane' with the mineral suffix '-ite' (common in mineralogy), suggesting a related or altered form of the parent mineral.
Allophite is a word that largely vanished from geological literature—it's the kind of term that reminds us that mineral classification wasn't always as clean as modern chemistry would prefer.
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