A mineral similar to ixiolite but yielding columbite rather than wodginite on heating, now regarded as a form of columbite with a disordered crystal structure.
Origin
1960s.
Definition of pseudo-ixiolite in US English:
pseudo-ixiolite
noun
Mineralogy
A mineral similar to ixiolite but yielding columbite rather than wodginite on heating, now regarded as a form of columbite with a disordered crystal structure.