[After Brochant de Villiers, a French mineralogist: see -ITE.] A mineral belonging to the hydrous sulphates, occurring in thin, rectangular, green crystals.
1865. Athenæum, No. 1949. 316/2. Minerals of the Brochantite group.
1868. Dana, Min., 665. Crystals of brochantite of a fine green color.
