Min. Also eukolite, -yte. [f. Gr. εὔκολ-ος easily satisfied (f. εὐ- (see EU-) + κόλον food) + -ITE. The name is founded on the fact that it contains less zirconia than wöhlerite does.] A variety of eudialyte.
1847. Scheerer, in Pogg. Ann., 565. [Explains that he gave this name to the mineral ‘because it contented itself, so to speak, with iron oxide in default of zirconia’].
1849. Amer. Jrnl. Sc., Ser. II. VIII. 126. On Eukolite, a new Mineral.
1868. Dana, Min., 249. Eucolite is from islands of the Langesund fiord in Norway.
1882. Watts, Dict. Chem., II. 605. Eukolyte is distinguished by the presence of cerium.
