Min. [ad. G. spinellan, so named (1808), by the German geologist K. W. Nose, from its resemblance to SPINEL.] = NOSEAN, or a blue variety of this.

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1815.  Aikin, Min. (ed. 2), 208. Spinellane occurs in small crystals.

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1842.  Penny Cycl., XXII. 348/2. Spinellane … is found on the borders of Lake Laach, near Andernach on the Rhine.

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1850.  Ansted, Elem. Geol., Min., etc. 200. Hauyne, with a nearly allied mineral, Spinellane, also called Nosean, cannot with propriety be separated [from Lapis-lazuli].

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