Min. [f. ELATER1 elasticity + -ITE.] A brown hydrocarbon, usually soft and elastic like india-rubber; elastic bitumen.
1826. Emmons, Min., 215. Elaterite, see Bitumen, elastic.
1876. Page, Adv. Text-bk. Geol., xiv. 244. Masses of elaterite, and slaggy mineral pitch.
