Min. [f. sumame of the discoverer Connell + -ITE.] ‘A green mineral occurring in acicular crystals and composed of sulphate and chloride of copper’ (Dana, 1850).
1852. W. Phillips, Introd. Min. 620. Connellite … consists, according to Connell, of chloride of copper, sulphate of oxide of copper, and a little water.
1885. Athenæum, 7 Nov., 608/3. The rare mineral ‘connellite,’ a sulphato-chloride of copper … Connell observed this mineral in 1847.
