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A mineral of a grayish color and resinous luster, found chiefly at Mount Monzoni in Tyrol. It is a silicate of aluminium, iron, and calcium, crystallizing in tetragonal crystals, related in form to the scapolites.

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Dr. Percy, in a communication with which he has kindly favored me, says that the minerals which he has found artificially produced and proved by analysis are Humboldtilite, gehlenite, olivine, and magnetic oxyd of iron, in octahedral crystals. — COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
He suggests that the circumstance of the production of gehlenite at a high temperature in an iron furnace may possibly be made available by geologists in explaining the formation of the rocks in which the natural mineral occurs, as in Fassathal in the Tyrol.] -- — COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1

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Named after the German chemist A. F. Gehlen (1775-1815).

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